Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Durable Blackball. Critics of fraternities contend that they are anachronistic because today's college students tend to be serious about scholarship, scoff at any pretentions to status, consider secret rituals something for Klans or kids, resist togetherness, applaud all moves toward individual equality. Despite official pressure against racial discrimination, the blackball system, which forfeits membership control to the most prejudiced among a chapter's members, still keeps most fraternities segregated. In the 42,000-enrollment at the University of Minnesota, not a single Negro belongs to any fraternity except all-Negro Alpha Phi Alpha. There are no Negro...
Well-Educated Watchmen. Such cynicism stems partly from students feeling that their education is put to little use by Communist societies, which tend to reserve the best jobs for party favorites. "They encourage us to study engineering and medicine," complains a young Pole, "and then they expect us to join a farming community and to make less money as a doctor than a common laborer. I didn't study ten years for that." A Czech student complained that university graduates are being "offered jobs as night watchmen-we have the best-educated night watchmen in the world...
...been able to draw the best performers from an international pool. Thirty years ago, more than half of U.S. symphonies were composed of foreign-born musicians; today the proportion runs about 10%. Thus, U.S. symphonies are free from the national mannerisms that mark European orchestras. And while European players tend to grow phlegmatic in the security of their state-subsidized jobs, the self-supporting arrangement in the U.S. engenders a competition that compels each musician to produce his best. Says Concert Violinist Henryk Szeryng: "I always find that my best accompaniments in the U.S. are in February and March...
...higher than older ones. Most drivers are tested only once in a lifetime, under ideal conditions at low speeds. On the highway-where they have to make 50 decisions per mile-they would flunk most elementary tests. Thirty states do not require periodic auto inspection, and those states tend to have the steepest death rates (the highest fatality rate is in California, the lowest in Connecticut...
Appleby and Davis, last year's second doubles team, tend to be erratic. At Princeton they played brilliantly last year, but at other times their play has been unsteady...