Word: tend
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...since World War II, the peoples of Europe, for all their lingering animosities, have begun to develop more of a common loyalty to the whole region and idea of Europe. Moreover, adds Harvard Sinologist Professor Benjamin Schwartz, "The West has achieved the modern secular state, and its machinery does tend to control internal strife. But most Asian countries are not yet modern nations in this sense...
...artist once they snare him. Some insist, as does Chicago, that he carry a full teaching load. "I don't know how much permanent value there is to just rubbing shoulders with great names," says Chicago English Chairman Gwin J. Kolb. Ivy League and West Coast schools tend to use the artist in informal seminars, then let him work while students kibitz or wait to nail him at coffee breaks. At Wisconsin, Painter Aaron Bohrod avoids talks, just keeps his studio open. "Fascinating verbalists may not lead you to the understanding that a shrug of the shoulders...
...church, Cox argues, must become "God's avantgarde" in the same radical way that Jesus related to the Judaism of his time. This will not be easy, partly because the churches tend to look toward the past rather than the future. "Their organization (residential parishes) is based on the sociological patterns of 1885 (before automobiles, commuter trains and industrial parks). Their Sunday-at-11 cultus is timed to fall between the two milking hours in the agricultural society. Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. The first Christian...
Because computer technology is so new and computers require such sensitive handling, a new breed of specialists has grown up to tend the machines. They are young, bright, well-paid (up to $30,000) and in short supply. With brand-new titles and responsibilities, they have formed themselves into a sort of solemn priesthood of the computer, purposely separated from ordinary laymen. Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their way of mystifying outsiders. Deeply concerned about logic and sensitive...
...question can be answered by an attempt at redefining a politician. The people who drew up the plans for the Institute tended to think of him in opposition to the academic, as a practical man in the midst of life, far from any ivory towers. Yet this is becoming less true. Is a Washington-bound politician any less isolated from life than a professor? The politician's day is full of desk work, as much of it as he cares to tend to. Legislative sessions get longer, and the vacations, the time spent at home, shorter each year. Inevitably...