Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Mao, Chen is a poet, but his verses tend less toward ideology than his master's. In Geneva during the 1961-62 Laos peace talks, he wrote...
...come up with some solid insights into deficiencies of the "para-military" approach to poverty. Their thesis is that war on poverty ignores a crucial "civilian perspective." The result of this defect is that programs which in theory are designed to increase self-reliance and independence, in fact tend to "enervate potential leadership," and to prevent criticism and retard innovation in favor of maintaining vested interests and the status...
...relation of the General Education course-requirements to other undergraduate programs. Advanced Standing students in particular constitute a major loophole in the existing program and tend to give it the character of an elementary, not to say remedial, requirement, to be avoided if possible. We propose that these students should be required in the future to fulfill the requirements like other students but that they and advanced placement students be allowed (a) to use their awards for pre-college work as the equivalents of nondesignated depart- mental courses in meeting the requirements and (b) to present petitions for individual programs...
...study pattern; a student may appear to read a textbook on atomic physics as if it were a novel. As at Harvard, daily homework is infrequent, except in the physical sciences and commercial courses and term papers are not assigned to B.A. students. Minor exercises that are occasionally-rejuired tend to rehash material from the lectures or reading, with less emphasis on creative thought...
Most Episcopalians, Pettigrew said, are white, middle-class, and suburban. Therefore they tend to separate themselves from people of different race and background...