Word: eschewal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was about Chou an inner serenity that enabled him, I would soon learn, to eschew the petty maneuvers that characterized our negotiations with other Communists. All our meetings on this and my subsequent visits lasted for many hours (sessions of five to seven hours were not uncommon); yet on no occasion did he reveal any impatience or imply that he had anything else to do. We were never interrupted by phone calls or the bureaucratic necessities of running a huge state. I do not know how he managed it; I used to joke that senior officials in Washington would...
...blame tenors for trying to ward off their demons with all the vanities for which they are so notorious?the fads, phobias, neuroses, magic charms and eccentric sexual regimens? (Dressing-room lore abounds with theories on whether singers should eschew sex before a performance and, if so, for how long. Most tenors seem to feel that two or three days of abstinence builds their strength. Several leading men in the 1940s, the story goes, were sabotaged by a shapely U.S. soprano who seduced them just before the curtain.) The only supernatural aid Pavarotti enlists to get himself onstage...
...weekly Economist of London, perhaps the staunchest supporter of the U.S. in the European press, bemoaned Carter's "amateurism" and warned that the President could not solve the country's problems "unless there is some understanding of how the world works and some readiness to eschew symbolism and appearances and go instead after the substance of the problems...
Progressives in Puebla were not at first counting on such an outcome. Pope John Paul II, in his opening speech at the conference, had denounced social injustice but also warned the bishops not to politicize the church, and to eschew violent reform−a delicate balance that discouraged many progressives by its ambiguity. A source of more distress was Colombian Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo, the CELAM secretary general who reportedly had received Vatican approval to stack the group with conservatives to avoid a reprise of the 1968 CELAM II in Medellin, Colombia. There, a liberal minority pushed through...
...silence points to a seeming contradiction in the way it handles public reaction to its vast authority. "We have nothing to hide," claimed a slightly annoyed Mike Troy in reference to the many questions raised about the AAU's decision to eschew disclosure of the full details. "I just think it's unfortunate," he added moments later, "that this thing got out in the press...