Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball purists tend to be a crazy breed. They live in the 1920s, wish they were in the Polo Grounds and wear black on the day Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox threw the World Series in 1919. Contrary to what these purists believe, baseball changes. Yet, maybe the average baseball fan could take a cue from them and learn that baseball in the 1980s would never survive without turning back to baseball at the turn of the century...
...able to cope. But his death can also be seen as a painful parable about how seriously many Japanese managers view responsibility and how they deal with failure. While many Americans feel little company loyalty and switch fairly easily to another firm when confronted with a setback, the Japanese tend to regard a job as a lifelong proposition and judge themselves entirely in the light of how well they do it. For some Japanese, especially those in their late 40s or older, failure to perform is equivalent not only to letting down the company but also to undermining their reason...
...example, offers a bizarre assessment of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to this text, "international opinion viewed this 'crime of the century' as the deed of ultra-rightists linked to the CIA and carrying out the will of the oil magnates of Texas." Texts on Soviet history tend to celebrate triumph after triumph, from the success of the Revolution to victory in World War II to the launch of Sputnik. They gloss over Stalin's purges, the starvation of millions during the collectivization of farms, military blunders that nearly lost the war to Hitler and corruption...
...obesity with lassitude and lack of discipline. The way to salvation is, in Barsky's ironic words, a "tanned, trim, taut, toned body" that will be an objet d'art, a masterpiece to be "treasured, meticulously inspected and painstakingly maintained in peak condition." Unfortunately for most Americans, who tend to be groaners and sweaters, that remains an unattainable ideal...
Democratic conventions have never been for the fainthearted. Whatever Democrats believe, they tend to believe it with the brawling gusto of a radio talk-show host. Whether it was Chicago Mayor Richard Daley snarling read-my- lips obscenities in 1968 or Senator Edward Kennedy battling a sitting President to the last bitter moment in 1980, Democrats have settled their differences with the civility of the Hatfields and the McCoys. Even the 1932 convention that first nominated Party Icon Franklin Roosevelt was raucous and bitter. As H.L. Mencken wrote at the time, "The great combat is ending this afternoon in classical...