Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bundy's real defense against tyranny lies in his reliance on the good sense and liberal values of men actually wielding power. He constantly qualified his plea for more government by adding "for freedom." He urged future administrators to avoid arrogance and never to lose their "sympathy" for the general public...
Religious experience, the guru's widow reminds Paul, "cannot be explained with words." Still, novels are but words, and Brown makes a brave attempt at a nearly impossible task. Even that shrewd old storyteller, Somerset Maugham, chose to avoid a confrontation with the issue in The Razor's Edge; his young American hero found self-transcendence in India, but Maugham never explained the religious experience itself...
...Robert Kennedy has something to offer the anti-Johnson effort at this stage. But by jumping into the race as a candidate, he would only point up his least attractive side and start off offending a substantial portion of the electorate. By throwing his support behind McCarthy, he can avoid the onus of opportunism, and add his proven abilities as an organizer in familiar surroundings to McCarthy's equally proven abilities as a campaigner in unfamiliar ones. Their potentials can be fused in a way they could not be with Kennedy the candidate...
...that is paid to the curriculum they would be better prepared to deal with incidents like Dow, and would be preparing now to understand and use constructively whatever new issues will be stirred up by the next generation of students. This approach would have among other advantages that of avoiding an issue becoming a confrontation between lawfulness and license, without in any sense running the risk of treating the college as a "therapeutic" community. If consistent "dialogue" and "communication," hackneyed but essential words, were current within the faculty and administration, and between them and the students, so that all were...
Bundy advised students to bide their time for now, preparing for a career connected with government. But he cautioned those who planned administrative or political careers to avoid arrogance. Rulers must always keep in mind, he said, their accountability to the general public, and their "sympathetic membership" in the public...