Word: avoidance
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...want to consider the sexual scene at Harvard, any reasonable person might ask, how could I know about this? Believe me, I’m not a player. Nor have I made a study. I just listen to students, ask questions, and try to avoid a high moral tone...
...Lynah faithful managed more creativity, thanks to stellar organization. Websites such as elynah.com inform the public of Cornell cheers and game plans so as to avoid embarrassing moments like when Harvard fans mumble the middle lines of “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard...
Having planned to reach New York City on Friday night for one last practice prior to a stay in New Jersey and the following day’s meet at Columbia, the Crimson instead chose to avoid the uncleared roads in favor of a night at a hotel in Stamford, Conn. With no pool in which to adequately practice and their final destination still hours away, Harvard’s swimmers made due with the resources at their disposal...
...remember the museums of my youth. They were always filled with rapt people and a contemplative silence. A silence so intense, in fact, that once I avoided sitting down on a couch in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) to avoid the noise the cushion would make...
...DeLay’s gerrymandering program, or an “Anti-Misinformation Law” to keep the Pentagon from resuming its absurd project to deliberately mislead foreign journalists, or a “Corporate Patriotism” bill to close the loophole that lets companies avoid billions in taxes by putting a home office in Bermuda, but this in itself is not sufficient. The real challenge for the Democratic Party, and its presidential candidates in particular, is to figure out how to reverse the Right’s stranglehold on our political vocabulary, without adopting the kind...