Word: diversionism
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In addition, the report stated that the diversion of first-floor space for the off-street loading platform would not "deprive the applicant of a reasonable use of its property," and that the denial of the variance would not subject the Coop to "substantial financial hardship."
Accordingly, Arab reaction to last week's initial Israeli tapping was notably restrained. But the danger of war has not entirely evaporated. In Syria, the shaky Baathist regime might decide that it could profit from a little external diversion, such as an attack by jet bombers on Israel'...
Carr is rather vague, in fact, about his role as a historian. Dissociating himself from the squabbles of scholarly journals, he says that he avoids "writing history for the historians." He likes to assume "I'm writing for intelligent people who want to understand something about their past. You can...
They were some of the strangest creatures ever to cavort upon a stage, those ballerinas in George Balanchine's 1946 ballet, The Four Temperaments. Swaddled with shreds of drapery, bodices bandaged with ribbons, they seemed like cats' playthings, a ragpicker's delight, a macabre masquerade of Martians...
The new literature does not provide facile diversion for a drowsy reader. For one thing, translations tend to be abysmal. For another, stylistic techniques are usually old-fashioned-partly because Soviet authorities still frown on "bourgeois ornamentation," partly because Soviet writers are still too intoxicated at being even partially free...