Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amateur casting works in general. We avoid the disruptive inongruities we'd get if we recognized, say, Mastroianni as Christ, or Gassman as John the Baptist. Still, one's preconceptions about these familiar characters persist, and mine labelled miscast the Angel of the Lord, Salome, the old Mary, and Judas...
...little psychoanalysis himself. He quoted from a lady psychiatrist: "Is it possible that Capote was gaining satisfaction out of acting as confessor to the criminals because of an intense identification with them? At some time or other, all of us feel like killing; but now Capote can avoid the real situation, since someone with whom he strongly identifies has done the killing instead...
...Court said last week. "Contributory negligence is not available as a defense to a liquor licensee who has sold alcoholic beverages to a visibly intoxicated person." Quoting a lower court approvingly, Judge Nathan Jacobs said that the law barring sales to drunks would be "meaningless, if a tavernkeeper could avoid responsibility by claiming that it was the person's own fault if he drank too much." Those who obtain liquor licenses "do so with the full awareness that the public is entitled to receive high measures of protection from abuses...
Died. Sutan Sjahrir, 56, Indonesia's first Premier from 1945 to 1947, in the Republic's renegade days (before The Netherlands finally recognized its former colony's independence in 1949), a moderate socialist leader who tried to avoid bloodshed by promising the Dutch full protection for their vast investments in return for freedom, but was turned down cold, a rejection so embittering to Indonesians that they turned away from Sjahrir's conciliatory position to Sukarno's militant anti-Western leftism; after a long illness; in Zurich, where he had lived since 1965, when Sukarno released...
Establishing a program of "academic semesters off" would circumvent the draft. It would let students with unsatisfactory records avoid immediate service and let others try jobs and projects which would otherwise be closed to them until after they had fulfilled their obligation. But it would not relieve any student of that obligation. Rather he would be offered the choice of staying on campus or getting out for a while, of serving in the military during or after college...