Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slightly brighter than boys to start with, but in their teens they begin to fall behind boys in analytic facility, which includes mathematics. Mrs. Maccoby correlates this fact with the discovery from various psychological tests that children (boys included) who are protected and discouraged from aggression, independence and initiative tend to be poor at math, while those who are early turned loose on their own to work out their problems without help tend to be better at it. And girls are more likely than boys to have an overprotective kind of upbringing...
...cadets have no incentive to probe further, particularly in humanities. Nor have they time: the "awesome" academic load is some 21 class hours a week, plus military training and compulsory athletics. Worse, says Boroff, most of the 358-man faculty (only 14 have doctorates) are short-tour officers who tend to follow canned lesson plans. Says Boroff: "Academically, West Point is a second-class college for first-class students...
While students who received A's in Chemistry 20 "tend to do well" in medical school and students with D's "tend to have trouble," those with B's or C's pass and fail in equal numbers. The report advises that "a grade of C in Chemistry 20 should discourage no one from applying to medical school...
...dormitories having strict penalties, girls tend to sign out far beyond the hour they actually return, leaving themselves a two or three-hour leeway. "Obviously," Miss Schrader said, "one can be kidnapped at midnight but would not be missed until four or five...
Most of what Updike has said so far, important or not, has remained well within the neutral middle range of emotion and event. His heroes, particularly those of his short stories, tend to be young boys or young husbands whose problems are small, and whose perceptions, although perfect and sometimes intense, are small also. The sole (and partial) exception is his novel of Everyslob, Rabbit, Run. Here his hero is a former high school basketball star whose memories of past glory give him immortal longings. When his life runs aground in the shallows of marriage, he is moved in anguish...