Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captures our vague feeling of joy when we approach an animal and he doesn't "quicken his trot" to avoid us; the evanescent feeling of horror when a lover senses the "last traces of warmth.. fading in you"; the complex of emotions she feels when she observes simple scenes like a man walking two dogs on a rainy evening or a young woman wading into a river to draw water...
...also added that if the law were passed, it would be "extremely difficult" for a candidate to avoid participating in the television debates. In the November campaign for U.S. Senator, Edward M. Kennedy '54 refused to take part in debates with Hughes and George Cabot Lodge...
...avoid it. We seek to judge an artist in London, Ont., by as severe a standard as one in London, England; and if we are inescapably American, we try not to let any regionalism show. But for the past eleven weeks the biggest story in the biggest city in the U.S.-where we publish-has been the shutdown of New York's seven daily newspapers. This week that strike becomes the subject of TIME's cover story, and not for reasons of localitis. Everybody is talking about it, even Moscow Radio...
Under a U.S. law a citizen who goes or stays abroad in wartime to avoid military service has been subject to loss of citizenship. Last week the Supreme Court struck down that law. It was the first time in five years that the court had declared an act of Congress unconstitutional...
...insistently addressed to the "white liberals" only. They are, supposedly, a group apart, easily recognizeable by their blindness to their own prejudices. J.G., implicitly, is not a white liberal, but he assures us that he bears them no personal ill-will, since he, too, has "Liberal friends." (To avoid any further identity confusions I'd better say here that I am a "white," of "Jewish" background, and a radical.) J.G. offers the white liberal and the country one simple solution to dissolve the "race barrier"--to treat "the individual as an individual." The problem, supposedly, is entirely psychological...