Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Signers of the statement include 98 seniors, 112 juniors, 132 sophomores, and 100 freshmen. In a poll conducted by the CRIMSON last winter, 103 seniors indicated they would go to jail or flee the country to avoid military service. This statement does not commit its signers to any single method of draft resistance...
...socialist, pacifist and nationalist-but not openly Communist-South Vietnamese, including Thich Don Hau, the representative of the Buddhist church in Hue, who is one of its deputy chairmen. In recent weeks, its members have gone into hiding in the cities or quietly slipped away into the jungle to avoid arrest. The Alliance has proclaimed a platform that calls for the neutrality of North and South Viet Nam. Clearly, by sugar-coating the pill, the Communists hope to build the Alliance into a full-scale political entity that would be acceptable in a coalition government, as the Viet Cong...
...calling. His politicians are not the hardened villains of the Washington Post's Herblock or the Los Angeles Times's Paul Conrad, but the hapless victims of their own personalities. Such is his inescapable fondness for the political trade that Oliphant goes out of his way to avoid meeting politicians for fear of blunting his needle. While lampooning Barry Goldwater during the 1964 campaign, Oliphant did not risk a personal confrontation until the election was over. He then found Barry to be, as he feared, a "marvelous...
...that cropped up in flight, NASA has decided that it can probably correct them all and make Saturn 5 safe enough to carry a manned Apollo spacecraft into orbit this November or December. By eliminating another unmanned test of the huge rocket, NASA would save about $280 million and avoid further delays in its program to place U.S. astronauts on the moon...
...materials of which this show is constructed seem to form an uncanny but logical whole, they often do so by contrast. If their contact is familiar, it is also often acrimonious. In fact, the heart of the dramatic technique of White Sale is irony extended and complex enough to avoid the schematization which cripples adventures into ironic dramatic montage. White Sale is in no sense didactic, and the ironies which arise out of the juxtapositions of its sequences have nothing to do with simple undercutting. For White Sale, irony becomes an instrument of investigation, not a tool of argument...