Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orchestra conductors, like the fork-tailed petrel, tend to be migratory in the spring. Among this season's notable migrations...
...gentle boss, and so sensitive to writers' feelings that he once called Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan in Havana to ask permission to change a comma. But this punctilious deference to writers' words may explain the magazine's increased windiness. Both fact and fiction pieces tend to run on interminably. As one writer puts it, "Everybody's pieces but mine are too long...
...reality. At heart they fear science, and this keeps aggravating the crisis of the Two Cultures-what he regards as the monstrous gap between the "scientific culture" and the "traditional culture" led by "literary intellectuals." Snow feels that this gap (greater in Britain than in the U.S., where intellectuals tend to believe, sometimes too blindly, in the scientific method) threatens the West with a loss of practical strength and cultural creativity...
Faces of Tragedy. Snow sees ignorance and disdain in both camps, but it is plain that he puts heavier blame on the traditional side. "The scientists have the future in their bones: the traditional culture responds by wishing the future did not exist." The literary intellectuals, particularly, tend to talk about the tragic human condition, and such talk infuriates Snow. The individual's condition may be tragic. Snow admits ("Each of us is solitary: each of us dies alone''), but that is no reason why the "social condition" must be tragic, too. For science, after all, promises...
...somewhat the same way: Dr. Alfred Smith of the University of California has found that when they are centrifuged, the anti-gravity muscles of their drumsticks grow to as much as seven times normal. But chickens are not so successful as mice at high-G reproduction. They try-but tend to lay flat, infertile eggs...