Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...token contingent of his 28,000-man Egyptian expeditionary force by April 20. Though Nasser's broadcasters are not the most reliable sources in the world, things may well come to this, for without doubt Jordan and Saudi Arabia-and all other Arabs-are becoming increasingly anxious to avoid angering Nasser...
...both East and West that a new era is dawning, requiring new policies. To Pope John, the world is in the midst of evolution, and political institutions need not be identified with the teachings that they stem from. Even if doctrines remain the same, the movements they foster "cannot avoid being subject to changes." Thus he notes, in what may be a forecast of even more startling moves by the Vatican, "It can happen that a meeting for the attainment of some practical end, which was formerly deemed inopportune or unproductive, might now or in the future be considered useful...
There are many reasons for the vogue. "It's like belonging to an exclusive club," says one unlisted, "and the implication is that one must be very important." Show biz types have an easily understood reason for avoiding telephonic pestering, or pretending to. One Brooklyn movie theater manager is unlisted to avoid the calls he used to get from irate parents whose children he had to eject for rowdiness. Night workers who sleep during the day often have their phones unlisted, and so do some old ladies who are painfully conscious of their vulnerability to a hard-luck story...
...Arendt's observation on the "unchained, unbridled private initiative of capitalism, which in the absence of natural wealth has led everywhere to unhappiness and mass poverty." It is precisely "unhappiness and mass poverty"--partially the child of irresponsible capitalism--which creates the revolutions Time is so piously anxious to avoid...
...revolution has ever solved the 'social problem'... Although the whole record of past revolutions demonstrates beyond doubt that every attempt to solve the social problem with political means leads to terror, and it is terror which sends revolutions to their doom, it can hardly be denied that to avoid this fatal mistake is almost impossible under conditions of mass poverty...