Word: avoiding
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...vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what he said in it, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue virtually without contradiction. Of course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality may be junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
There he won little distinction as a lawmaker; he has sponsored no significant legislation. But Miller did win a name as a party loyalist with a penchant for party organization, and as a good man to avoid in any debate. This reputation got him the chairmanship of the National Republican Committee, and he did a diligent job, traveling some 150,000 miles, delivering nearly 600 speeches, appearing on national television more than 100 times, and jabbing at the Democrats every inch of the way. He has called Adlai Stevenson "completely inept," castigated Averell Harriman as the man "who loused...
...spokesman said that CORE had planned to avoid having demonstrators arrested; if the Bick management had called the police, the demonstrators would have left. When police did approach the picketers and urged the crowd to disperse, an M.I.T. graduate student went up to an officer to ask him a question. He was promptly arrested, and this was the spark which touched off the fireworks...
...show that Carrie put a price tag on it. In one of his last letters, he wrote that he could not "secure you the larger competence you have so frequently mentioned. I can pay with life or reputation, but I can't command such a sum. To avoid dis grace, I will, if you demand it as the price, return to Marion to reside . . . If you think I can be more helpful by having a public position and influence, I will pay you $5,000 per year in March each year, so long as I am in that public...
Freshly Pressed. Although the catalogues and record jackets discreetly avoid mentioning the fact, these new records "for budget-conscious connoisseurs" are mostly freshly pressed reissues of classical standards cut before 1960. In a fiercely competitive market where the consumer is conditioned to demanding the newest rather than the best Beethoven Fifth, say, the life expectancy of many a first-rate classical LP has been growing shorter every year. Fifteen years ago, Schwann's LP catalogue listed 489 classical titles offered by eleven recording companies. Today there are some 14,000 classical titles available from 118 companies, which are spinning...