Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parade of the French army that demonstrate the necessity--and King's neglect--of elementary blocking. Throughout most of the play, characters walk onstage, speak, and leave without being given actions to perform. Perhaps King felt that since any movement would basically be arbitrary, it would be better to avoid movements altogether. This strikes me as a seriously misguided decision, since among other things it makes the scenes that absolutely must be planned out seemed rigidly choreographic...
Richard Backus, as the king of France, looks much too young but has an impressive and resonant voice. If only he took care not to slur phrases and to avoid the Shakespearean sing-song jog that it is so easy to fall into...
...defined the term in 1864, is "organized opinion." It can also be the opposite, as U.S. Republicans demonstrated at their national convention 100 years later, when an open free-for-all over the party platform irreconcilably widened the breach between the G.O.P.'s moderate and Goldwater factions. To avoid another schism in 1968, when they will need all the unity they can muster, some Republicans suggest holding an informal platform-drafting convention a year earlier, when the atmosphere should be more conducive to deliberation...
Quality is also a hit-or-miss proposition. Rumanian "Carpati" cigarettes are so thinly packed that a smoker must slit the pack down the side in order to avoid spilling tobacco from a vertically lifted cigarette. The well-turned-out lady of Budapest buys her clothes at the shop of Klára Rothschild on winding Váci Utca, but equally handsome working-class wives do their shopping at the Great Market Hall-a vast, unheated, barnlike building where sausages and onions dangle from the beams, dung-smeared chicken eggs sell for a dollar a dozen, and delectable fish...
...University need not have battled the Commonwealth to register its disapproval of an oath many of its Faculty members resent. Moral courage was not required of the Corporation. It would seem that if the Corporation had wished to remain noncommittal over the oath, to avoid a brouhaha, it need only have agreed to wait for M.I.T...