Word: eschewal
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...House e-mail lists, and given headaches to the leadership of its pro-choice counterpart, Harvard Students For Choice (SFC). The message that abortion is a bad choice is certain to resonate with moderates, precisely because it emphasizes that abortion is indeed one available choice, albeit one women should eschew...
Amis has a paradoxical gift for lending words to violent men, men who eschew words for blows. "The problem of violence is the human problem," he says, looking conspicuously peaceful as his Negroni finally materializes. "Violence seems the solution to difficulty, whereas history more or less universally tells us that nothing resolved by violence is ever resolved. It's just postponed." --By Lev Grossman
...Arroyo's vow to eschew campaigning in order to govern better clearly backfired. Restive members of the military led a mini-coup attempt against her in July, and husband Miguel was embroiled in a financial scandal. She announced her latest decision at a Saturday rally, saying: "I will offer myself as the leader with the experience and vision." Surveys suggest that might be a triumph of hope over experience. A public opinion poll for the ABS-CBN network shows Arroyo has the support of only 16%, behind two other potential candidates. But Arroyo is banking on further acts of divine...
...turn English fans back at the border and lock up (for the duration of the game) anyone who succeeded in penetrating the triple police cordon around the stadium. Even Turkey's imams have got in on the act. After Friday prayers earlier this month, they urged fans to eschew the usual raucous chants directed at their opponents ("We are ready to die, die," and "There's a beating waiting for you outside,") and instead express approval of the home side in more dignified and spiritual terms: Maasallah (May Allah preserve you), they suggested, or Baarek Allah (Blessed Allah...
There are only two ways to avoid liberal hypocrisy altogether. The first way is to eschew all sensory pleasures, dress in rags, and eat saltines every night for dinner. The leftist ascetic who sacrifices everything for his beliefs in social justice is undefeated in the many battles of the civil war of the self; he is the ultimate champion of the higher self. The second route to total consistency is to avoid the civil war altogether. The draft-dodgers (of the civil war of the self, that is) who have no qualms about climbing the corporate ladder and buying multi...