Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Ryan, a first-year student, says that Vanderbilt residents do their best to avoid competition but admits a certain amount is inevitable. "You're always around people who are studying the same exact things--sometimes it seems like you can't get away. At least in college when you get back from classes you can be around people who are doing a lot of different things. You can't do this a Vanderbilt," says Ryan, a Brown graduate...
Inverting the scheme of the traditional morality play, Brecht has his characters--a pair of sisters trying to earn money for their family home--avoid the traditional deadly sins so they can practice far worse ones more efficiently. One sister (both are named Anna) serves as guardian spirit to her suffering sibling: as they travel from city to city, climbing a ladder of fortune, the worldly temptations of Anna 2 are warded off one by her moralizing sister...
Games with boards, pieces to move, and dice seem to be in decline. They had one at Woolworths called Don't Tip the Waiter, and another in which mountain climbers tried to avoid falling rocks, charging goats and other alpine hazards; but otherwise there are only the traditional Monopolies, Scrabbles and the like...
...charge of the RSV revision is the Rev. Bruce M. Metzger, 66, a gentlemanly New Testament professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. While Metzger is conservative on matters of doc trine, he is willing to avoid male nouns and pronouns-where the original Hebrew and Greek texts allow it. Thus the reference in Romans 14: 1 to "the man who is weak in faith" will likely become "the one who is weak . . ." In Psalms, the first verse will read "Blessed are those who walk not in the counsel of the wicked," rather than "Blessed is the man who walks...
Carlos A. Rodriguez '82, author of the letter, said yesterday he will ask athletic department officials at the meeting to avoid overcrowding and confusion at future Yale games by providing at least four ushers per section, repainting the numbers of rows and seats at Soliders Field, and discontinuing standing-room-only tickets...