Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your Essay on scofflaws [Jan. 24]: most people obey laws not because they fear the penalty but because they believe the laws to be good and necessary. Rules that are not widely perceived as essential tend to be ignored. This was the case with Prohibition; it may also be true of the 55-m.p.h. speed limit. If many motorists are ignoring the speed limit, they may be voting with their right foot...
...back, demand a refund. The law might stand in his way, of course, but the heart of the issue is not legal. A procedure has been devised in which a human being is literally conceived as a manufactured product. Therefore, consciously or not, all the participants in that procedure tend to regard the product either as the flower of a growth industry or, if a flaw appears, as industrial waste...
...academic community, Brustein's approach to literature verges on insurrection. Professors tend to cherish fidelity to a text and tradition in its interpretation. Brustein seeks to make every play speak to the present, and does not revere even Shakespeare's words as sacred. Often stimulating and insightful, his productions of masterworks are novelties that presume the audience knows the standards from which he departs...
...group of undergraduates which is split between those who for one reason or another have chosen to live out-side the College and those who have been forced to do so. The former rarely seek association within the House, and the latter, resentful of the stigma of the outcast, tend to stay away unless forced to visit for administrative reasons...
Whitla noted that further evidence shows male students tend to interrupt female professors more than they interrupt male professors. On the other side of the desk, women teachers apparently are more hesitant to assume control of the class...