Word: eschewing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THESE ARE the "savage people" to whose heritage May finally gives in. As she becomes more and more obsessed with getting the better of Quayle, May comes to eschew the profit motive for the visceral thrill of sheer, pure, glorious revenge. She studies him, even goes to a lecture. Appalled at the near-manic, hushed crowd anticipating his appearance on stage...
...belief that even a sliver of power corrupts, the Greens eschew any hierarchical party structure. The result occasionally is unhappy chaos. Arguing incessantly with one another, party members have created an oppressive atmosphere of dogmatic righteousness. Even Green Deputy Petra Kelly has become too well known for the taste of party purists and is keeping a low profile...
...critical and usually overlooked sense of moral ambiguity about the war effort. It is no easy task to avoid automatically sermonizing about Vietnam's rights and wrongs, especially in an era where so much political discussion tends toward excessive moralizing--just consider the nuclear debate. But Goldman and Fuller eschew an easy judgment either way, whether it be outrage or the wrong-headed "noble cause" nostalgia that a sympathetic warrior's tale could fall prey...
...students plan to eschew these traditional get-aways to visit Moscow and Leningrad in the Soviet Union...
...some students may well prefer them. But it would be foolish to maintain that students learn less about artistic inquiry by tracing the course of art in the Western world than by examining "The Development of the String Quartet." And it would be shameful to continue forcing students to eschew a broader grounding if they choose to seek...