Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as what Riesman calls the machismo of the Harvard student (we all see ourselves as self-sufficient "Harvard Men"), operate to intimidate students from admitting that they have problems which they cannot solve themselves. Dr. Perry of the BSC claims that Harvard is forced into this posture to avoid charges of paternalism from students who resent an overactive counselling staff...
...newly formed student committee in the physics department will aid graduate students who plan to avoid the draft by transfering to a European or Canadian university...
Park explained his coaching philosophy a few days ago. Sitting in the bleachers of the IAB swimming pool to avoid notice--his baseball appointment had not yet been announced--he listed four requirements for a successful coach...
...Philadelphia, worried officials prevailed upon Presidential Candidate George Wallace to avoid a scheduled appearance that might have ignited the tense community. The rites in Boston's Roxbury district included a mural showing Malcolm "ripping the whiteness from the faces of black people who are discovering their own beauty," while his other hand spat fire at "the symbols of white America-the flag, the White House and the false God of Christianity as it is now practiced...
Swarowsky is scarcely more lovable afterhours. Sometimes he stalks the streets of Vienna, scowling and conducting to himself to avoid greeting passersby. He admits to a great "mania to convince everybody about everything," and many of his outspoken opinions are less than gracious. His hottest public feud is with gifted Opera Conductor Karl Böhm, who, he thinks, has an "impossible" technique and is too lax with singers. Partly because of these traits, partly because of the didacticism of his approach, Swarowsky has never made great headway as a practicing conductor. It is only when he conducts his classes...