Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bernbaum countered these criticisms by saying that the Committee went out of its way to avoid the orgy-like atmosphere of previous Jubilee weekends. "We have eliminated the objections of the students and the objections of the deans," he said...
Despite a warming spring sun and blue skies, Warsaw last week was a gloomy and uneasy city. The press had a strident, scolding tone. Normally talkative Poles suddenly felt it more prudent to avoid the few Westerners who have lately managed to get entry visas, and the government became stricter about letting Poles leave the country. Everywhere there seemed to be larger numbers than usual of plainclothes policemen and other shadowy characters. The country's severest purge since the bloodless revolution of 1956, which had started off a few weeks earlier by concentrating on the Jews in government...
...investor, he studied law at the University of Montreal and political economics at Harvard, went on to the London School of Economics and Paris' Ecole des Sciences Politiques. In 1948-49, he strapped on a knapsack and took off on a round-the-world trip. To avoid postwar red tape and to have a bit of a lark, he forged his visas and slipped illegally into Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia, where he was caught, locked up and then expelled. In Arab-held Jerusalem, after asking too many questions, he was arrested as an Israeli...
...were picketing the revival of Gone With the Wind. Some were carrying signs protesting Hattie McDaniel's stereotyped portrayal of a colored nanny. Without any sense of contradiction, others were demanding that Hattie be given top billing alongside Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The only "safe formula" to avoid racial offense, Cooke discovered, was adopted by a New York progressive school, which staged The Merchant of Venice. "Every boy or girl in the cast was Jewish. Except Shylock. His real name was Cynthia Adams...
...heart of the confusion is Mr. Moss's personal touch. Some of his talent is apparent in a number of details: fine readings, well-pointed jokes, carefully arranged stage groupings. But something too much of his ability has been devoted to an attempt to avoid a confrontation with the text. His interpolations (among them a parody soap opera by distinguished Warholian, Gerard Malanga, and a number of creaky, smutty japes) are as distortive as they are entertaining. His choices in directing characters (especially the daughter of the family, who Mary Moss portrays with special spirit as a flaming youth...