Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supporters of the term paper tend to regard the development of intellectual skills as a more important part of education than the acquisition of information. Three hours, they say, is hardly enough time for a student to exhibit his skill in relating Furthermore, examinations put on memory and glibness, evaluation of a student should chiefly upon standards of , clarity, and perceptiveness-- which one hopes to find among adults. As one instructor put it, taking examinations is an activity to students. When you assign you treat the student like...
...Norton, president of the Northern California Square Dancers Association (103 clubs, 11,000 members): "Just watch how those people come into contact with one another and smile. These aren't profound friendships, but they're easy ones to make and wonderful ones to enjoy." Consequently, square dancers tend to be middle-aged couples in the kind of jobs that include little social life...
...Rene admitted: "The effort involved in one of these missions is such that at the end we often feel emotionally drained. We tend to fall back on comfortable phrases and words like 'happy,' 'proud' and 'thrilled,' and we feel so much more. I want to say especially that not once in the past three years would I have had Scott do less than he did today. For us, the family who also served, the rewards were very great...
Civilization may have helped produce hay fever in ever larger quantities, but medical scientists still do not know the exact mechanism of hay fever, and, at best, the treatment they prescribe only alleviates symptoms. Antihistamines (which tend to dry up nasal passages) help give relief in 80% of cases, and steroids have proved to be useful. Allergists inject various kinds of pollens under the skins of their patients in order to desensitize them -a long and costly process that is only occasionally successful. Still under investigation is what the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases calls "one-shot immunization...
...vaguest idea in mind, lets it evolve on the canvas, a characteristic of action painters. Landau's Cinna was inspired partly by the Orson Welles production of Julius Caesar and partly by the brutality of Naziism in World War II. While many of the new figurative painters tend to use the figure as just another object or form, Landau is brave enough to admit to being concerned with "the condition of man." Ben Kamihira (overleaf), Joseph Hirsch and Ralph Borge (last page) do not use distortion to achieve a sense of drama; their paintings rely more on a subtle...