Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrible testing in our nation's life." To Republican Judd, the choice in November was clear: "The man who will be nominated in this convention as our candidate will be incomparably the best qualified to deal with the relentless cold war, which we have tried our best to avoid, but which we now have no choice except...
...Basilic in a charity performance of The Barber of Seville with a Manhattan opera company early next year. Signora Buitoni. an ex-coloratura soprano who knows all about Giovanni's booming arias, will attend his operatic debut. "After that," quipped Buitoni. "she will probably fly to Europe to avoid the noise." . . . Winging into Paris' Orly Airport, Boston Matron Rose Kennedy, 70. was forthwith thrust into a quarter-hour TV interview, proved as nimble as Son Jack in verbal fencing-although one listener described her French as "not so fractured as it sounded fried in bacon grease." A partial...
...behavior. But whatever a husband's shortcomings, the care and feeding of a diva is no easy task. One veteran recalls his routine before each performance: "I keep all windows shut, even in summer. I also make sure my wife eats no soups, pasta or heavy foods. I avoid smoking and refrain from doing or saying anything that could upset her. We even stop making love...
Saving Instinct. German campers have made the three-hour cup of coffee a way of vacation life. In Italian cafes, they sit six deep around a cheap bottle of vino nero, dawdle away an afternoon for 30?. Tip-conscious waiters avoid them like the plague, comment sardonically: "They have more money than other Europeans. Naturally they want to save...
...small New England town, the big New England town and, sometimes, New York. It was the world which James Gould Cozzens also made his own, of businessmen, bankers, lawyers, doctors, writers. Marquand had no sense that such professions were too mundane to provide human drama, although he chose to avoid the more violent forms of love, death and despair...