Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First novels tend so often to be the efforts of young men with more feeling than talent, and more talent than control, that the appearance of a new writer whose viewpoint is mature and who knows how to say exactly what he means is something of a literary event. Author Wallant. 34, is such a writer. His first book deals skillfully with an unlikely subject-the grief of a 59-year-old plumber after the sudden death of his wife...
...word skyscraper-would not only help solve M.I.T.'s space problems but would also provide a focus for the other low roofs. The new structure would act like a flagpole in a public square, drawing the surrounding laboratories and dormitories into an organized composition. Since scientists tend to believe that change is the only tradition to operate in, Pei made his case...
...possible spearhead for spreading Castro's influence to Guatemala, Arbenz is likely to prove of small value. Guatemala's leftists tend to consider him a quitter and a has-been. Instead, Arbenz will continue the role of propaganda showpiece that he began last week before the cameras of Havana's Televisión-Revolución. "Latin America was jolted by the intervention of North American imperialism in Guatemala," he said. "The Guatemalan situation will not be repeated in Cuba. When a people is so united and determined to win, when it has leaders so self-denying...
Critics of American civilization, like most specialists, tend to be narrow in their diagnoses of what ails the U.S. David Riesman in The Lonely Crowd worries about other-directedness and herd instinct. William H. Whyte in The Organization Man examines the loss of individuality caused by modern corporate life. Vance Packard in The Status Seekers sees the trouble in a craving for the symbols of importance. Frank Gibney, a journalistic G.P., has a simpler, more sweeping and engagingly old-fashioned diagnosis: the whole place is getting to be crooked, just plain crooked...
...reverse collar and black habit of a priest, was unfrocked last week by Detroit police for passing a bad check in a jewelry store. A former theology student, he had changed his mission in life but not his garb ("The clerical outfit is impressive, and immediately people tend to trust you"). Having thus accumulated more than $35,000 in less than six months, he confided cheerfully that he had no qualms about posing as a priest. "You see," said Wiley, "I'm an agnostic...