Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brackman's notion of "influence" is a little paranoic. A student's mind is not made of wax; it actively responds and takes and rejects according to need. If there are submerged contents, it is best if they come to the surface. A good teacher does not avoid transference; but, unlike an orthodox psychoanalyst, he at once tries to dissolve it, by noticing it, by the play of reason, by turning it into actual liking or hostility. How else does he think a young person "matures"? One does not "wait for" maturity. Along the same lines, when he speaks...
...evident enjoyment the entire Johnson family welcomes him to a barbecue with a chorus of "Deep in the Heart of Texas" sung in Latin. In New York, Richard Nixon holds a press conference to announce his selection of a staff of advisers "who will help me formulate plans to avoid becoming a candidate for public office...
...become a symbol of police brutality yet who, in fact, merely reflected the seething hatreds in a city where acts of violence were as common as chitlins and ham hocks. As it happened, Bull Connor was running for mayor against a relative moderate, Albert Boutwell. To avoid giving campaign fuel to Connor, King waited until after the April 2 election. Between Jan. 16 and March 29, he launched himself into a whirlwind speaking tour, made 28 speeches in 16 cities across the nation...
Furious and frightened, King Saud hurried back to his capital city of Riyadh, took refuge inside the seven-mile circumference of Naziriyah Palace compound and ordered his Royal Guard to cover all approaches. At night the 6,000 wall lights on the palace glared brightly to avoid a sneak attack, as the King fired off a nervous demand for assurances that Feisal would not depose...
...with humility and with love." In fact, the trip will be a protocol-hedged ordeal for the Pope, who will have to pray while under the eyes and cameras of more than 1,000 newsmen, 8,000 policemen and 500,000 Jordanians and Israelis. The trip was planned to avoid adding to Near Eastern tensions, but some bitterness inevitably was aroused; Arab papers complained about the Pope's visiting Israel as well as Jordan, and Jerusalem's Chief Rabbi refused to take part in Israel's welcoming ceremonies...