Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claustrophobia. Christmas triggers all kinds of remembrance of things past; the jolly season often brings on black depression to those who had an unhap py childhood; obese people tend to eat their heads off; the old and lonely feel older and lonelier than ever...
Richardson agreed that his plan might tend to stifie dissident groups within the party. "Campaign contributions at this time go mostly to individual candidates. If the financial machinery were centralized, money would come to the party instead of to the man. This would make it difficult for a candidate who had been defeated in the convention to challenge the party in a primary...
...Chicago Psychologists Jacob W. Getzels and Philip W. Jackson (TIME, Oct. 31, 1960). They put forward the now respected idea that a high IQ is not a reliable sign of "giftedness." may simply indicate "convergent" thinking, or mental grey-flannelism. Truly creative children, they say, are "divergent" types who tend to find IQ tests boring, do not readily accept the "right" answer as the right one. Seeking a better gauge than IQ, the Chicago team devised various tests to spot divergents. Instead of asking students to pick "right" answers, the tests ask them to make up alternate endings for fables...
Psychologist Hudson gave Getzels-Jackson tests to 95 schoolboys, aged 15 to 17. To his own surprise, the top scores came from those specializing in history and English literature. The least creative, according to Hudson's findings: physical science students. Young scientists, says Hudson, "tend to be less intellectually flexible than young arts specialists, and more restricted emotionally...
...planets are not the main concern of radio astronomers, who tend to think of them merely as distant parade grounds for space cadets. Even the sun, which sends out rich chords of radio waves, is not a chief attraction. The astronomers' keenest interest is focused on much more distant space, from which the waves bring news of strange occurrences. The third strongest single source in the sky is a famous astronomical object, the Crab Nebula, the turbulent, gaseous wreck of a star that turned into a supernova and blew itself to shreds on July 11, 1054 A.D.-an event...