Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid specialization, a Harvard member of the audience suggested, would be to expose students to a professor's methodology rather than to emphasize his wealth of specialized factual knowledge. It might be more helpful "to force a student how to think, than what to think about," David M. Gordon '64 said...
...Crimson's performance last night could have thrown a fright into any team in the country; this evening against Penn the Key problem will be to avoid the effects of a let-down. At any rate, they'd better leave those extra 300 seats up in the IBA. Harvard basketball may have won quite a few converts yesterday
...candidates (all vacancies are in Philadelphia). The judges Scranton finally chooses will face the voters when their terms run out, but they can expect the bipartisan support now given to most Philadelphia judges. By specifying that the nominating commission is to list three names for each vacancy, Scranton should avoid the unhappy quandary of New York's Mayor Wagner, who set up a similar committee two years ago, but is now quarreling bitterly with his own group because it will not give him what he considers a long enough list of candidates. As a result, despite New York City...
...students can roar into a tavern," a medical student says wonderingly, "and immediately they become despondent, wailing their favorite fado." Positive-thinking Portuguese try unsuccessfully to combat this downbeat sense of life; if such songs must be sung, a Portuguese intellectual has urged, "let us suffer en famille and avoid letting foreigners think we have invented a new kind of yawn...
...luck followed him last year to Chamonix where, whistling through the downhill at 70 m.p.h., he was suddenly waved off the course to avoid a collision with a fallen skier. He dodged the skier all right-and flew off the headwall "like an airplane." Recalls Zimmermann: "I said to myself, 'Egon, that's the end-you're going to break every bone in your body.' I was lucky. I got off with strained ligaments and twelve days on crutches...