Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Until history provides perspective, your Essay must be filed with the contemporary evaluations of Vatican II as the best capsule analysis. You avoid the extremes of so much of the press coverage, from indiscriminate flattery to unimaginative cynicism. That a newsmagazine weighs for its readers the triteness or the significance of different council statements is evidence that John XXIII's dream and Paul VI's plans are already being realized: Vatican II was not just for the Catholic Church (ecclesiastical) but for the world (ecumenical...
...affairs. Today, some 20 years after his death, his theories are a prime influence on the world's free economies, especially on America's, the richest and most expansionist. In Washington the men who formulate the nation's economic policies have used Keynesian principles not only to avoid the violent cycles of prewar days but to produce a phenomenal economic growth and to achieve remarkably stable prices. In 1965 they skillfully applied Keynes's ideas?together with a number of their own invention?to lift the nation through the fifth, and best, consecutive year of the most sizable, prolonged...
...great movement to awaken the national conscience." In the political back rooms and in talks with the country's landowning upper class, Lleras Camargo reminded Colombians of the 200,000 killed during the years of bloody civil strife, implying that the front was the only way to avoid another massacre-or a military dictatorship. The campaign ended at a huge rally in Bogotá. With Lleras Camargo looking on, Lleras Restrepo once again accepted the front's nomination for President and proclaimed a platform of nationalism and social reform...
Died. Grady Mars, 41, Grand Klaliff (vice president) of the North Carolina Klan, who, according to his wife, had been despondent ever since he took the Fifth Amendment last October to avoid telling the House Un-American Activities Committee what he had done with $328 missing and unaccounted for from a Klan legal-defense fund; by his own hand f(.38-cal. pistol); in Granite Quarry...
Finally, Kosygin turned to his translator and said, "I really want to finish him off." Reston asked for permission to publish the interview. Kosygin agreed -but insisted on having a day to go over the transcript, "to avoid misunderstanding." The Soviet Premier obviously saw the interview as a prestigious piece of propaganda. That it may have been in Russia and, perhaps, in North Viet Nam. But elsewhere it showed Kosygin to be unsure of his facts, easily provoked into unreasoned anger and hardly master of himself-let alone a great nation...