Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to get in Wrigley Field and 'put one over the plate for Jesus baby,' " says a Georgia coed. Even union members have little sense of militancy. Having little fear that they will ever lack material comforts for their own part, the young tend to dismiss as superficial and irrelevant their elders' success-oriented lives. "You waited," sniffs a young Californian. "We won't." Nonetheless, today's youth appears more deeply committed to the fundamental Western ethos-decency, tolerance, brotherhood-than
House of Happy Talk. Kauai ("The Garden Island") likes to think it has best safeguarded the ancient Hawaiian traditions of hospitality. The "Aloha spirit" has been adulterated on bustling Waikiki with too many cheap grass skirts and plastic leis. But it still thrives on Kauai, where farmers tend their lush taro patches and fish with nets from the reefs much as their forefathers did. Local boys and girls mingle with the young crowd of guests in the Prince Kuhio piano bar of the new Kauai Surf, at Kalapaki Bay, whe ~e the waves come in just right for beginning surfers...
...their preference for conformity, women teachers tend to scold disorderly boys much more often and much more harshly than they do girls, but this often only leads to greater aggressiveness by the boys. Partly because of this, at least twice as many boys are reported to principals for learning and behavior disorders, nearly two-thirds of all grade repeaters are boys. Three times as many boys as girls develop stuttering problems...
Women teachers also tend to ask test questions that favor feminine ways of thinking. A girl, for example, is more likely to recall the details of how an organization like NATO works, while a boy could more likely generalize about the purpose of such defense treaties as NATO. Even when boys score as well as girls on standardized achievement tests, say two Stanford researchers, boys nevertheless tend to get lower grades on report cards...
...Education Professors Jean Grambs and Walter Waetjen of the University of Maryland, is that "women literally do not know that they use words differently, structure space differently, perceive persons and reality differently from men." They may not be aware that they "value neatness and cleanliness above intellectual initiative," and tend to be "not only more prejudiced" than men but "more dogmatic about their prejudices...