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Many pols and ex-pols are predicting that smart, charismatic folks such as Livingston will now shun public office.
The author of California's Proposition 227, which replaced bilingual education with English-only instruction, insists that immigrant voters will shun feel-good appeals to diversity and tolerance.
Polls show that Americans are willing to shun instant gratification to accomplish long-term goals such as repaying the federal debt or revamping Social Security.
A faith in magic, in the spirit world, became his aesthetic: He denounced naturalism, fought George Bernard Shaw's "mechanistic" vision (he once had a dream in which Shaw appeared, clicking like a sewing-machine and smiling insanely), and proposed a poetry of dream and Celtic twilight that would shun the hustle of the world.
It's not surprising that at the beginning of this century women who wished to declare a new parity with men, to escape feminine mystery and enter female reality, should shun male gear.