Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like all good prehistoric beasts tend to do, the Dinosaur eventually disappeared, leaving behind only fossilized traces of his natural foodstuffs, his indigenous underwear, and his characteristic drug paraphernalia. He left behind no moral lessons, no cultural conundrums worth of opination, but only a stark example of the brutal spiral of natural selection, which fortunately left him with a brain incapable of responding to the printed word. Which means I won't get nuked...
...African bush, notes Morrow, is an "unforgiving place. The lame and the careless are taken down quickly." Morrow learned the cautious local custom: while walking in the bush, warn the animals of your approach; it is when they are surprised that they tend to attack. When out alone, Morrow took to bellowing old Irish songs to alert whichever beasts might be lurking nearby. One day he headed out for some fishing in the Aberdare Mountains. "I went down the game trail to a trout stream with my fly rod in hand, singing like the Clancy Brothers," recalls Morrow...
Most of this experimental activity takes place in Europe; what Old World audiences find adventurous, American operagoers often consider brazen. Protective of the cultural talismans bequeathed by distant European forefathers, Americans tend to mistrust radical interpretations. Europeans, more at ease with their own heritage, feel freer to experiment with it. Those seeking a bold approach in the U.S. will rarely find it in the big houses. In New York City, the Metropolitan Opera favors conservative productions, sometimes elephantine ones like Franco Zeffirelli's La Boheme and Tosca, that reinforce the company's role as a musical museum. Occasionally, the rival...
...sciences tend to be very good in assigning students to faculty," Ozment said. "I think most of the problem is in the humanities and social sciences. I think they're content to have student participation simply through the tutorial offices...
Student Six: I am what is called a Euro. I have an asymmetrical, dyed hairstyle and tend to wear clothing from the 20s. Sometimes I wonder aloud why we are even sitting in this class, for indeed we are all going to die someday, and then what? I think section discussions are all so pedestrian, for I once read a book by T.S. Eliot and then debated its relevance to the underground music movement over a cup of coffee and a clove cigarette at a nameless cafe with a man wearing a beret-like hat. I too sometimes wear...