Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having their complaints acted on instantly. "They are the babies who were picked up," notes Harvard's David Riesman. They have less direction than previous generations, are challenged by their parents to think for themselves. For all the rather exaggerated talk of the generation gap, American student activists tend not so much to defy their parents as to emulate them. And their parents are inclined to approve of what they are doing...
...there is an all-important difference between student advice and student control. If students could dictate the hiring and firing of professors, they would tend to select those with whom they agree-and fall into an echo chamber. Latin American students have considerable control over many universities, and the consequence is chaos and inferior education. A university is not a democracy and cannot become one without degenerating into anarchy. At a conference on "Students and Society" at California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions last year, the president of the student body of St. Louis' Washington...
When it's cold outside, people tend to burn their TV sets longer. In fact, according to the A.C. Nielsen Co., audience figures climb 25% in the winter. This January and February, viewing hit an alltime high - 461 hours a week in the average U.S. home. The most habitual viewers are women 50 and over, who put in 331 hours before the set. Least hooked are the teenagers: they sit still for only about 19 hours a week...
...three years ago that her husband had just been gravely injured in a fall from a cargo lift on the Philadelphia waterfront, and he sent word to sue. So she dashed off-not to the hospital, but to her attorney. Suits filed on behalf of living victims, she knew, tend to be more remunerative under Pennsylvania law than suits filed by aggrieved heirs. As the injured man's wife, she was authorized to file a suit on his behalf-but only so long as he remained alive. The complaint was typed up at breakneck speed; the court clerk...
...into the family. But only as a sort of stepsister. Classical musicians and listeners accept its presence, but they don't necessarily understand it, much less like it. Even the compliments they pay it-such as Stravinsky's frequently ex pressed fondness for its syncopated rhythms- tend to miss the point and be come condescending...