Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League have long had them. When Cornell's band came to Harvard, each man was given an allowence for overnight expenses and food. A Harvard bandsman attends out of town and he's pretty much on his own resources, and has to endure long bus rides to avoid overnight trips. These bus rides were sometimes revved by "raids" on various girls schools (i.e., unannounced concerts usually at pre-dawn hours, though the administration's attitude made this inadvisable on this year's Penn game trip. In past year's the bus rides were less objectional because dates were allowed...
THERE is much destructiveness in Tropic, but Miller manages to avoid the tediousness and peevishness which gives so much of modern literature an unsavory reputation. The wealth of his language is immense, and beneath it, one hears a tone of voice that is much too positive to ever lose itself in the squalor and pain it deals with. Miller would destroy modern culture, yes; but he is in control of the destruction, and not vice versa. The images of cancer, of decay, that run through the book convey the point very well. The world is falling apart, getting even worse...
Deadly Slogan. Henry Styles Bridges (he dropped the "Henry" years ago in order to avoid confusion with the West Coast's Red-lining longshoremen's labor boss, Harry Bridges) was only nine when his father, a Maine farmer and storekeeper, died. "Upon my father's death," Bridges once said, "I worked the farm and met the responsibilities of manhood through my youth." At the University of Maine he earned his board and tuition by milking cows at the agricultural college; later he helped send a younger sister and brother through college. In 1920 he moved...
...Council could not decide conclusively what the name of the new body should be, and voted to leave the choice up to the students. The re-organization committee suggested the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs, in order to avoid the implications that the new group is a student governing agency. It feared "improper implications associated with the name Student Council...
...rescue operations. In 1935 he left the service. "I would not take any job at all," he wrote Lady Astor. "There is something broken in the works, as I told you: my will, I think." Five days later, on May 13, 1935, Lawrence swerved his motorcycle to avoid two boys, fatally crashed into a ditch. Lawrence's bust was put beside that of Nelson and Wellington in the crypt of London's St. Paul's Cathedral...