Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TREASURY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL HUMOR by Leonard C. Lewin. These jokes and yarns tend to be on the broad side, but in addition to being funny, they provide perspective on our most revered -and often clumsiest-political customs and institutions...
...Michael Novak warns that even if the institutional church withers away, another will eventually take its place, and that "there is no way of so organizing life that holiness and vitality are guaranteed." He also points out that those who talk of the militant church for the chosen remnant tend to sound a trifle holier-than-thou...
...able to undergo economic crises than Britain, whose sterling is the world's second reserve currency after the dollar. Sterling is thus held temporarily by persons all over the world because of the ease with which it can be used in banking and trading-and many of them tend to unload it as quickly as possible when it seems to be threatened by economic difficulties. Since Britain buys so much more than it sells, three-quarters of its sterling reserves are in foreign hands, a fact that straps the British economy into a straitjacket. The only...
...research. "Of all the countries I know," said Author C. P. Snow, now Parliamentary Secretary of the newly formed Ministry of Technology, "this country respects engineers least." Result: a brain drain that has robbed Britain in recent years of some of its best scientific talent. British managers also tend to look down their noses at the self-made man and the aggressive merchant. "A tremendous amount of work has to be done," in the opinion of Sir George Briggs, deputy chairman of Hawker Siddeley Industries, "to root out the prejudice that trade...
...Morse's larger paintings in May. They are part of the tradition of abstract expressionism and recall Conrad Marca-Relli and Franz Kline to an extent. But they are quite individually conceived and well put together (the frame and backing were done by the artist herself). Some of them tend to be a little "soft," where she uses blue and green cloth cut into small shapes. Her paper collages are most successful; they are black and white, with a little red occasionally, and their line varies between that of torn paper and real hard-edge. Her inspiration is nature...