Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier meeting had compiled a list of vacant seats available in various Boston schools. According to a 15-year-old school department policy, any Boston child can enroll in any Boston school with vacancies, once he gets a transfer slip from his neighborhood principal. Since the urban white districts tend to have an older population than the Negro areas, they frequently have vacant places in their schools...
...aspiring psychiatrists feel cheated throughout their "undergraduate" years at the Medical School.) All of these courses demand your presence in long lectures and labs, two educational devices of questionable value in which Harvard has unending faith. Small-group instruction, when available, is usually effective; lectures, on the other hand, tend to obscure general principles of their subject and confuse students with welters of detail. In general, professors do not assign reading; students are expected to dig out basic concepts on their own. It is perfectly possible to succeed with one good book and without spending the whole day in class...
Poverty? Americans with bloated bellies? People living under bridges? Beggars in the street? Children dying for lack of doctoring? Of course not. Nonetheless, the U.S. has its angry, frustrated poor. People who do not suffer poverty tend to think of it in absolute, merely materialist terms of Dickensian squalor. In fact, poverty has to be measured relative to the rising standard of living, the tenderer social conscience, the national capacity for creating wealth. Poverty is the condition-and the awareness-of being left behind while, economically, everyone else is marching forward...
John Kennedy spoke of "patches of poverty"-and indeed, the poor tend to be concentrated. In Chicago the poor are the winos of skid row, the aged pensioners and beatniks of West Madison Street and the hillbillies of the "uptown area," a middle-class neighborhood only a decade ago. Virtually every city has its Negro slums: Detroit's Brewster, Chicago's West Garfield Park, Las Vegas' West Side and Los Angeles' now notorious Watts. The rural poor cluster in the picturesque Appalachians and the Ozarks, on the Louisiana-Texas coastal plain, in the southern Piedmont...
...Parents tend to deplore the progression toward long hair. Says David Mauldin, the 15-year-old son of Cartoonist Bill Mauldin: "My father thinks it makes me look like a faggot." In their own defense, students point out that long hair has been a sign of virility ever since Samson, claim that they often grow mop tops because their girl friends want them...