Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME is banned in this country. I daresay that I am one of the very few people who have the honor of reading it. A friend in the States sends it regularly simply by removing the cover to avoid postal detection. Sea mail from the States takes two months to reach here, and the latest issue of TIME I have read is May 10. The article "Lincoln and Modern America" is an excellent one. Please pass my compliments to the author. Could he be the same person who wrote the article "The Age of Anxiety," which appeared in TIME, March...
This would be the first time in U.S. history that Congress found itself forced to legislate compulsory arbitration to avoid a specific strike. The precedent pleased nobody. And although most Congressmen felt they had no choice but to approve the bill, few cared to have their names associated with it. Thus, when a demand was made for a roll-call vote, it was drowned out by cries of "No, no, no!" Then, on a standing vote with names unrecorded, the House passed the bill...
This expectation fell far, and tragically, short of fulfillment. In both South and North, public officials found all sorts of ways to delay, avoid or simply ignore implementation of the Supreme Court's order. Dashed to the ground, Negro hopes arose once more in 1957, when President Eisenhower ordered federal troops into Little Rock to enforce token high school integration...
...Beware of false prophets," Jesus warned, and St. Paul urged the church at Ephesus to "mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." For the 350,000 members of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, these injunctions forbid taking part in the "false ecumenicism" of modern Christianity, and even sharing worship with other Lutherans who interpret differently the doctrines of the Reformation. Carrying out this belief, the Wisconsiners at their biennial convention in Milwaukee last week broke away from their oldest ally among the nation's conservative Lutheran churches...
Absent are Sophocles, Cervantes, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal-all of them beloved by educated men. The few foreign works include De Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Bryce's American Commonwealth. The committee tried to "avoid inflaming rivalry" by omitting all fiction by living American authors; had they not died recently, the library would not have Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway. But the American classics, old and new, are there: Emerson, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Henry Adams, Henry James, Mark Twain, O.Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Howells, Fitzgerald-and, should presidential browsers care, Louisa...