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Word: eschews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fined $5 each* for violating Wisconsin's compulsory-school-attendance law. A small case, but a crucial one. The three farmers-Jonas Yoder, Wallace Miller and Adin Yutzy-were Amish. They had kept their children out of high school as a matter of religious conscience, because the Amish eschew too much worldly knowledge. Total pacifists, they could not even personally fight the convictions; by the strict tenets of their faith, a court suit would violate Jesus' injunction to "turn the other cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Right to Be Different | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

From its inception, it has criticized Muskie and Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O'Brien as standpatters. When McGovern announced his candidacy early last year, the New Democrat hailed the news as "a flash of hope in a darkening landscape." Schlesinger advised his readers to "eschew the Muskie bandwagon until, regrettably, that is the only one remaining," but held off formally endorsing McGovern in print until last month, lest the publication be dismissed out of hand as a McGovern mouthpiece. Now that Muskie's candidacy has collapsed, the monthly has turned its fire on Hubert Humphrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Liberal Voice | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...Southeast Asia and subsequent exposure to the politics of protest upon returning to Cambridge in 1967. According to Sloan, the nameless hero of his first book does not choose to take up the family tradition and enter politics upon his return from Viet Nam, nor does he completely eschew identification with issues of social concern. Above all, he turns inward for significance...

Author: By Jim Krauss, | Title: Entertaining Mr. Sloan | 5/4/1972 | See Source »

...Portuguese, such a group could set the movement back several decades. Almost any student of Portuguese colonialism will vouch for the fact that the Portuguese are past masters of the art of divide and rule. Indeed, unlike their French, British and Dutch counterparts, they have indicated a willingness to eschew notions of racial purity in order to create buffer segments of racially mixed native middle class groups who are then classified and treated as distinct segments of the native population...

Author: By Orlando Patterson, | Title: Angola, Gulf, and Harvard | 5/2/1972 | See Source »

...have any moral or poetic sense at all, it's hard to dislike a guy like Farber--even if his writing and the films he's apt to praise eschew moralism and poetics. All the words he uses and the statements he makes come from deep in the center of the man. They hit you with the impact of felt experience and funky artistry...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Natural Selection | 2/17/1972 | See Source »

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