Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOLL (Philips). The Four Seasons resemble the Beach Boys in playing arrangements scored primarily for guitars and cash registers. Philosophically, however, they tend to be more conservative. It was they who warned Dawn to go away, and now along comes this sad rag doll. "I'd change her sad rags into glad rags if I could," sings the hero, "but my folks...
...should gladly suffer all faultfinders, including those whose eyes, too irritated by motes and beams no longer removable in drugstores, see little that is good in a sad world. When it comes to the fair, I know what disturbs the chemistry of the critics. Their sour stomachs dis tend and churn when they hear that we have discovered gold nuggets on the banks of Flushing Creek. The truth is that they hate like hell to see the fair moving to success. I don't overrate these people, but one drunk can interrupt a Mass; a rotten egg can silence...
Nonetheless, among U.S. medical men, nonbelievers still outnumber believers in natural-childbirth methods, and many obstetricians tend to deride the evangelical fervor of the naturalists for drugless childbirth. But even doctors who are not advocates of natural childbirth are willing to acknowledge that there is good in what the naturalists preach. Nowadays, fewer mothers are anesthetized in delivery-a practice long scorned by naturalists. There is also a growing trend toward the type of prenatal preparation and exercise that naturalists have been strongly recommending as standard obstetrics for more than three decades...
Although few are thoroughly pessimistic, many are "realistic." They find the naivete of most white students amusing at best: "Liberals at Harvard tend to think in terms of good vs. bad. Every Negro at Harvard thinks in terms of power." And those who avoid such statements do so not because they disagree, but, generally, "because they think the whole thing is so futile...
...another time this particular student described what he called the "white liberal syndrome." Many white liberals, he said, tend to suggest academic solutions to complex problems, and so make the Negroes they are working with, who feel the problems more acutely, feel inferior. They also have a tendency, he said, to see Negroes not as people, but as problems. And he suggested that some enter the movement because "they cannot come to grips with white society. They go where their color makes them naturally superior...