Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little "irrational" and break their grip. In short, I don't worship "reason" any more than I go out and prostrate myself before the MBTA subway because it transports me as efficiently through the Massachusetts underworld as "reason" does through the academic-intellectual jungle. Indeed, they both tend to break down with alarming frequency, and are probably not to be trusted too faithfully...
...maids, for example, spend half their time every day cleaning the large, multi-unit bathrooms. If normal size bathrooms were shared by two or three girls, the users could care for it, just like in the real world. This arrangement would actually involve less work, since girls would naturally tend to be tidier if they had to clean up after themselves. In any case, it's not going to ruin anyone's academic standing to clean up a bathroom occasionally...
...Wilson admits, the styles are not empirically defined, and are more the result of the judicious impressions of his workers in the field. Indeed, the book falters most noticeably when Wilson attempts to use selected tables of arrest statistics to bolster his argument on the styles. The statistics do tend to confirm that the styles exist, but they also lead him into tiresome digressions to explain anomalies in certain of the tables...
Stinging as some of the lines may be, the delivery is so whimsical, the targets so varied, that it is hard to be outraged by Laugh-In. Rowan and Martin take pains, in fact, to mask their personal views. The Smothers Brothers, on the other hand, tend...
...black businesses, or pro-labor legislation, simply because the groups which seek these kinds of programs--the young, the poor, the blacks--do so within the Democratic party. Therefore the motivations of Republicans who pursue these liberal programs are somewhat more amorphous than those of Democrats, and tend to have more to do with personal values of "public service" and "social responsibility...