Word: avoidance
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...time to think hard. It will be hard to avoid it in the coming week, as Take Back the Night kicks off on Sunday with a Rape Aggression Defense class, whirling through a week-long series of varied events with sexual violence as the uniting theme. The week, and the spirit of awareness and positive change it represents, is a triumph and a minor miracle. But for me it will be long and filled with unpleasantness. There will be the daily sight of t-shirts bearing testimonials in the Yard, the appearance of new ones and the lengthening...
...With lyrics by Tim Rice and a score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of Chess. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while “we go on pretending stories like ours have happy endings.” Through Saturday, April 12. 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, at 8 p.m. on Friday, and at 2 p.m. (April 5 only) and 8 p.m. on Saturday...
When they’re all together, Kabala, Kimball and their roommates say they try to avoid getting into heated discussions, though awkward moments intrude. At one point, guest Helen Dimos ’03-’04 remarks that, throughout the course of their discussion with FM, the roommates have been “provoking animosity” towards each other, particularly in picking on Kabala...
Sewall—who studies civilian casualties in context of war—lauded the U.S. military for its efforts to avoid collateral damage...
...group eventually establishes that the power dynamic within a conversation is important and that humor is a way for them to collectively avoid becoming too polarized in a discussion. “If people are coming from any ideological distance whatsoever, in order to have any serious political conversation, you need to move slowly and not have so many voices at once,” says Ezekiel W. Reich ’03. “Therefore, a real conversation about Iraq couldn’t happen at our dinner table with all of us at once...