Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pragmatism Hoffmann defined as "planning every day in order to avoid the disasters that happened yesterday:" but good pragmatism is "trying to reach reasonable goals by suitable means...
Borges decided that he wanted his future readers to know that he was not one of the writers "before and after Whitman" who had tried without succeeding. Part of his effort was to avoid "dazzling and surprising" his readers. He tried to "let my things write themselves...
...Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's bill to make a sixth-grade education the only required proof of a voter's literacy, now backed by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen as well, faced its first legislative test-and failed. The backers of the bill hoped to avoid sending their measure to the Judiciary Committee, which, under Mississippi's Senator James Eastland, has been a graveyard for civil rights legislation. They hoped instead to have it referred to Mansfield's Senate Rules Committee. But Vice President Lyndon Johnson, advised by the Senate parliamentarian, ruled that...
Bankers insist that the national, all-purpose credit-card clubs are having even more serious trouble, involving losses from deadbeat customers and chiseling proprietors. Nowadays, when a customer flashes his credit card, many restaurants and hotels that subscribe to the plan bill him directly, to avoid the 5%-7% commission charged by the clubs. The clubs have recently been forced to hike their annual membership fees to $8 (from $5 and $6) in an effort to make money on customers who charge less than $200 a year...
...lapse into a slightly righteous indignation at the brutal misunderstanding of the so-called healthy world without ever sympathetically coming to grips with the tension implicit in the vague difference between normality and abnormality. Others have simply over dramatized the sensational aspects of the problem. The Mark manages to avoid these pitfalls. With a great deal of insight and considerable taste, it illuminates the crisis of a rehabilitated sex offender's adjustment to a normal environment...