Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From foolish permissiveness to foolish repressiveness, too many American middle-class parents careen downward from the joys of birth to the final whimper, "What did we do wrong?" The hard answer is that failed parents tend to be failed people who use children for their own emotional hang-ups. They never stop, look or listen to the kids; they never grasp that parenthood is a full-time job, perhaps the most important job in a chronically changing America. They never see the challenge: teaching a child integrity-the self-respect that makes for strong, kind men and women...
...Warm, friendly, mature girls," on the other hand, wear fishnet sweaters, black stockings, and colored underwear, according to Snavely. Other positive factors are very long or very short hair, indicating "that a girl wants to characterize herself as anti-apple pie;" flatchestedness, making a girl tend to "prove her femininity and sexuality however she can;" and coming alone to the mixer, a show "of maturity and self-confidence which her flocking sisters cannot claim...
...extent to which characterization and thematic development in Sally's Hounds must be carried by visual technique is startling. The film lacks for conventional dramatic structure: the narrative is essentially linear, but scenes tend to be of near equal length, regardless of their functional importance; the absence of any special optical cuts (fades, dissolves) tends to give all transitions the same weight...
...evening's chief flaw that there was too much tooting and not enough musicianship. I tend to give the Band the benefit of the doubt, though, and hope that next time, with more rehearsal, lavish praise will again be appropriate...
...students at Harvard is the Crimson. There are, of course, literary magazines, humorous magazines, magazines for the social sciences, drama reviews, semi-professional magazines, and assorted newsletters. Some of these publications, both good and bad ones, are deliberately aimed at limited audiences. The ones which aspire to universality, however, tend to suffer from inconsistent writing, unimaginative editing, or lack of funds. A daily newspaper with these shortcomings will probably still be scanned. But a college magazine can't get away with mediocrity...