Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...create an inspirational building." The University made very few precise requirements. Among them were that studio space be flexible so that it could be used for other purposes or partioned off into smaller areas, that there be a minimum of offices in order, as Sekler says, to avoid the atmosphere of a "bureaucratic hydrocephalus," and that there be a multipurpose large lecture hall adjoining the light and communications area...
...Avventura, also, Claudia said that she did not know what was troubling her, but soon she realized that she was falling in love with Giorgio. Vittoria, however, certainly does not love Piero, although she does find him attractive. She tries to avoid all physical and emotional contact with him, and the love-making they do engage in finally is brief and unsatisfactory. Vittoria is not as unable to communicate as she is unwilling, for she fears the abvious solution to her problem: solitude...
...integration struggle in Montgomery. Negroes can still ride in the front of the buses, but the schools, the lunch counters, the hiring-practices of businessmen and all the other aspects of Montgomery life remain segregated. Parking rates are two cents for half an hour so that whites can avoid the "indignity" of using the public transportation on equal terms with Negroes...
...Scientists reported that everything on board the satellite was working perfectly. The internal temperature, which had climbed to 85° under the Florida sun, cooled down in space to a comfortable 78°. Telstar II is basically much the same as Telstar I. Its chief modifications are intended to avoid damage by the high-speed electrons of the Van Allen radiation belts, which silenced its predecessor after seven months of service. The new satellite's higher orbit, rising to 6,713 instead of 3,531 miles, makes it spend more time in the "slot" between the upper and lower...
...broken marriages and furthering the work of Christ. To California's Bishop Pike, it is "heresy in embryo" when there is an overemphasis on one form of worship. In a pastoral letter read to 125 congregations, he directed the clergy not to propagate glossolalia and cautioned laymen to avoid its practice. "This particular phenomenon," Pike argued, "has reached a point where it is dangerous to the peace and unity of the church and a threat to sound doctrine and policy." He warned that not enough is known about glossolalia's psychological causes and effects, added ominously that...