Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, the newly-elected president of the Student Association, Carl Hokanson, said he would not make a statement at this time to avoid "the type of emotional response characterized by the statements of certain other elements of the University community." "Information presently available is too emotional in character, and too limited in scope, to form the basis for a useful recommendation," he added...
...mass meetings were held at the Business School. In the only official statement by students, faculty, or administrators, Carl Hokanson, president of the Student Association, said the group will not make a statement at this time to avoid an "emotional response...
Close Supervision. Even that praise was well measured. Aware of his government's unpopularity, Marshal turned President Arthur da Costa e Silva divided his lengthy televised anniversary address to the nation into four one-hour installments that were shown on successive evenings. Purpose: to avoid annoying the viewing public by interfering with their favorite evening soap operas. The presidential prudence reflected the reality that though military rule has brought unprecedented growth and prosperity, the mood of Latin America's most populous country is one of resentment and unease...
...there any way to avoid the beehive model? Perhaps. We must ask the individual to accept certain kinds of responsibility, and we must create the institutional framework in which individual responsibility is feasible. Traditionally, we have spent enormous energy exhorting the individual to act responsibly, and very little energy designing the kind of society in which he can act responsibly...
...eternal life. American Protestant funeral rites traditionally reflected this belief in such comfortable old favorites as the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my Shepherd") and the promises of Jesus ("I am the Resurrection and the Life"), at least until the more unctuous funeral-parlor euphemisms began to avoid any confrontation at all with the idea of death. Roman Catholic rites, on the other hand, were infected by a grim medieval preoccupation with sin and punishment; any confidence or joy in the resurrection hardly seemed to exist...