Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subjects." This was the unlikely counsel of outspoken Manhattan Methodist Ralph W. Sockman, minister since 1936 to a congregation now numbering some 500,000 on NBC's Radio Pulpit. "Churchmen," his sermon continued, "act as though they feel they have to pontificate on any problem and, having spoken, tend to assume that there is little more to be said. This is boorish behavior as well as bad theology. It leaves little alternative for those who disagree but to stay away. Thoughtful members of contemporary society are doing this in droves...
...existence of self makes the mind believe that it exists as an amorphous continuum, which appears to be the "I." Since the "I" exists in a continuum, it is an inescapable receiver of all pains and pleasures of the past, the present and the future. Hence we tend to think: " I" was happy a moment ago, now "I" am unhappy and what will "I" be next moment...
...Vietnam these days that one forgets how precarious the situation there really is. Announcements that the small nation's chronic trade deficit is shrinking, that its agricultural production is growing, and that a new, hard-headed American assistance program has replaced the surrealistic spending of post-Geneva days all tend to smother such easily-missed items as a recent Vietnamese government report complaining of a "lack of security in certain rural areas...
Widespread awareness of all this has itself contributed to the change. Psychologists report that 30 years ago the U.S. was in an "age of covert anxiety." It is now in an age of "overt anxiety." People tend to believe that it is wrong and "sick" to feel anxious or guilty; they are beset by guilt about guilt, by anxiety about anxiety...
...acting and the photography combine to produce a sufficiently convincing portrayal of simple men at war, as when the terrified colt stumbles about the battlefield, the film gives an effective picture of life dancing innocently with death. But the attempts at artistry tend to be as heavy handed as the choir that wades in when the wind blows across the steppes...