Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing segment within the council argued that to best serve students the council should avoid sharp political disputes by restricting its role to the social and services realm. Many council-watchers point to the term of Council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87 two years ago as the last time these issues divided the council...
...There are people on the council who are hesitant to touch an issue that's controversial, and if that means turning our heads and ignoring issues of discrimination, there are some who seem willing to avoid controversy," said Council Secretary Frank E. Lockwood '89, who sponsored the Fly Club legislation and a resolution about this year's support staff union drive. "I think there was some fence-straddling, trying to please everybody, and on some of these issues you're not going to please everyone," he said...
...troubling, however, that in the process of laying bare the Big Bad City, Wolfe's paranoid style becomes dominant. For anyone who wants to expose society's inner workings, Wolfe can serve as model--a negative one, that is. The hip cynical writer is a channel one should avoid...
...credibility faced its biggest challenge. The trick was to avoid doing a Jerry Lewis-like routine of a man impersonating a burbling brat. Hanks wanted his twelve-year-old to be one who just happens to look 20 years older than the other kids on the block. "The hardest part -- and also the appeal -- of the role was to strip myself of all the adult layers," he says. "It was to regain the kid's sense of play. I dug up memories -- or scars -- of myself in junior high school...
Amid shrieks and thumps, as the intruders handcuffed themselves to cameras and scenery, Lawley plowed ahead undeterred. "I am afraid that we have been rather invaded," she announced calmly. "In the meantime, if you can avoid the background noise, we will bring you the news if we can." Witchell, seeing a demonstrator handcuff herself to Lawley's desk, took intrepid -- although sadly unvideotaped -- action: "I sat on her and put my hand over her mouth." Police eventually removed the unwelcome guests, who were released later without being charged...