Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side, and they count more against than for him, eclipse him with bright images form the past. Where they were praised too fulsomely, he is bound to be judged too harshly. He inherits the illusions of his brothers' following with the accumulated venoms of their foes; and both tend to disinherit...
...well known that teen-age boys tend to do better at math than girls, that male high school students are more likely than their female counterparts to tackle advanced math courses like calculus, that virtually all the great mathematicians have been men. But why? Are women born with less mathematical ability? Or does society's sexism slow their progress...
Harvard did not file any compliant despite the generally negative write-up, L. Fred Jewett, dean of admissions, said, "We don't tend to get very aggravated by these types of outside references...
...away!" or a slamming door. The character of Natalie seems nowhere near as complex as Johnny's so that the story she narrates occasionally seems to escape her comprehension. The flashback monologues that tic the play together are its weakest stretches, whether because of the lines--which tend to spell out undertones that should be shown--or Thomas' occasionally uninspired reading of them. But such flaws are unimportant alongside a plot which, astonishingly, justifies not only the play's occasional lapses but its considerable length...
...judge Alyin Robin also lauds the hands-off role Ely posits for the Court, but says Ely's finely wrought theory on the limits of judicial activism could never be perfectly realized. "Sometimes the theory doesn't fit the duty" of the judge, especially in the hard cases that tend to reach the Supreme Court, he says...