Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that has occupied him in every one of his previous works: the problem of intrafamilial relations (Quentin: "I don't know any more what people are to one another!"; "When you've finally become a separate person, what the hell is there?") and of quasifamilial intimacy (to Quentin: "You tend to make relatives out of people"). After the Fall is chiefly a picture of painful failures in such relationships, even to the point of self-destruction ("A suicide kills two persons; that's what...
Although their names sometimes suffer drastic changes, the big law offices are usually solid and durable institutions. Most of today's giants are direct descendants of firms established generations ago. Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, for example, traces back to 1869. Relationships with clients tend to be just as durable. Shearman & Sterling has represented one New York bank for the past 67 years...
...twelve-year-olds, and "going steady" at ever younger ages. American youngsters tend to live as if adolescence were a last fling at life, rather than a preparation for it. Historian Arnold Toynbee, for one, considers this no laughing matter, for part of the modern West's creative energy, he believes, has sprung from the ability to postpone adolescents' "sexual awakening" to let them concentrate on the acquisition of knowledge...
...this notion is repugnant. St. Paul said that it is better to marry than to burn; except for Roman Catholics, Americans tend to believe that it is better to divorce than to burn. The European aim is to keep the family under one roof; the American aim is to provide personal happiness. Partly as a result, the U.S. has developed what sociologists call "serial polygamy," often consisting of little more than a succes sion of love affairs with slight legal trimmings. Cynics point out that serial polygamy was a fact even in Puritan times, when men had three or four...
Expansiveness is characteristic of Rowse, who seems to live in a world of the superlative and the absolute. But these extravagant claims tend to make a reader dismiss the book completely when the boasts are not fulfilled. And while the book is not the key to Shakespeare's life and works that Rowse would have us believe, it is hardly the worthless drivel that his harsher critics profess...