Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catalogue of facts supporting these commonplaces can be drawn from The New York Times. I.F. Stone has reprinted a fair selection. Yet such catalogues impress neither policy makers nor old-line liberal commentators who support the government position. Both tend to shrug off attention to the local injustices of the war as characteristic of the tendermindedness of radicals...
...home, now a new eight-bedroom white brick house in McLean, Va., Ann Hand concentrates more on being capable. She has to, since she has five children (aged twelve to four) to tend, a full-time job even with the help of a full-time housekeeper. Additionally, there are minor matters, like languages to learn. Lloyd has some school-taught Spanish, and Ann is setting herself to learning French. "My hairdresser can help me," she says, pointing out that he is a Frenchman...
Technical graduates perform well in their jobs, particularly when their training coincides with the needs of industries in the locality of the college. But Medsker contends that too many junior colleges tend to belittle their middle-track duty of providing a general education for the nontransfer, nontechnical student. Counseling is also often inept. The failure to give this type of student a meaningful broad education is a serious fault, since two-thirds of all students entering junior college profess an intention to continue to a senior college-but only one-third actually...
...match his Japanese wife. He painted his Citroën sedan in varying hues of metallic violet and noted it in his life catalogue as his 445th work of art. The rest of his 611 recorded works are the product of a wise primitive in a modern age; they tend to be corrosively colored, rank as a humus heap, and scornful of straight lines (see opposite page...
...less satisfying. They say it is be, cause the first published western, Owen Wister's The Virginian, included no Negroes. Since the book was an extraordinary success, no one dared change a good thing. But by that time, the West was mostly legend, and the values of legend tend to black-and-white good guys and bad guys, and permit of little shading. As legend, the oldtime cowboy will go on looking like Tom Mix. History, thanks to Durham and Jones, has acquired new shadings...