Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conant's new book a disappointment. The Education of American Teachers tackles its subject directly but without emotion. It gives no quarter in recommending changes that would irritate vested interests or lessen their power. And when it advocates compromise or seeks a middle way it does so not to avoid controversy but to promote cooperation; for Conant strongly believes that teacher training belongs neither to professional educators nor to academicans but to both, and to the public whom they serve...
There was an unusual amount of kicking which one elderly (29-year old) Boston player believed was designed to avoid too much running in the hot weather. Punting loosed up play considerably...
Cambridge people usually avoid talking about the Charles River; it has a very embarrassing smell. A longstanding rumor says that the odiferous river carries an immense amount of sewage, industrial wastes, and garbage. The rumor is wrong. The engineers at the Massachusetts Public Health laboratories have found that the Charles, even by national standards, is quite clean. In fact, MPH engineers consider the Charles one of the state's cleanest small rivers...
...Pigeons Allowed"-which is said apocryphally to have happened in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. The most effective columbifuge so far seems to be a gooey chemical trade-named Roost-No-More, which is smeared on the cornices of buildings. It gives the pigeons a mild hotfoot, and they avoid its smell...
...still thinking, as I strolled with my host in the rear of the band back towards Harvard Square (quite the best way to avoid the traffic) that what I had witnessed was but a manifestation of what I had seen a hundred times before during 7 years in tribal Africa. Perhaps, I mused, there is something to be said for tribalism after all: perhaps the urge to "belong," to be at one with a greater whole, to sink individuality into tradition and tradition into loyalty, is too strong for any of us to resist