Word: eschewing
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...leper colony; instead, a small group of lepers will greet him in a Manila suburb. At the mountain resort of Baguio, John Paul will be entertained by a group of pagan tribespeople, sporting G strings and spears. The Catholic tribespeople, who usually wear Western clothing and eschew spears, will be relegated to the background...
What child would eschew this furry lighthouse in favor of slot cars or Barbie dolls? And only $10--it costs $16 to sponsor a foster child for a month...
...Harvard people embrace individual Mormon ethics and metaphysics of James, Royce, Whitehead, Santayana, Hocking; eschew the worst cleave to the best of pilgrim fathers--in a moral commitment equal to the intellectual: you can transcend modern man into a dramatic new amalgam, generating a powerful and irresistible public mood, in which the weakest and most derelict find it easy to do right and hard to do wrong. Henry Ratliff...
...MINORITIES apparently eschew Harvard? One answer in the report--provided by a former Faculty member now in charge of minority affairs for the American Psychological Association--is that minorities don't like the atmosphere here. They consider the University "aloof and cold, the racial climate in Boston forbidding, junior faculty positions more insecure than at other schools, and the cost of living unusually high...
...worked a Saturday night in three years. It's too much of a party night. You get too many drunks, too many kids. Plus, it's depressing to work on Saturday night when everyone else is partying." There are also certain parts of Cambridge that Arthur tries to eschew, usually choosing to play from Harvard up to North Cambridge, steering clear of the east part of the city. "One time I picked up these four kids in East Cambridge, which was a mistake. They wanted to go down to Boston near the Ritz, where a lot of gays hang...