Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Landers survey appeared to have touched a hot button among sex therapists, who argued that the columnist's pile of letters should not be taken as definitive statements about sex in America. For one thing, argued the authorities, the groups tend to be self-selective, not the random respondents found in more scientifically conducted polls. Said San Francisco Psychologist Lonnie Barbach, author of For Each Other, Sharing Sexual Intimacy and several other books on human sexuality: "If you've got a problem you have more impetus to write in and share...
...with no strong policy beliefs of his own. At the same time, he has shown an outsize concern with turf and prerogatives. Predicts one of his former colleagues: "He'll try to do it all himself. He can't stand sharing the limelight." That could mean that Regan will tend to keep other advisers away from the President. At worst, eager-to-please Regan could wind up telling the boss only what he thinks the President wants to hear...
This is violence of a special kind, not "brother, can you spare a dime" stuff but anarchic, pointless, Clockwork Orange violence. It is particularly reviled because it is perfectly senseless. We tend to call serial murders senseless, but we know that buried deep inside a Wayne Williams lies a horrible, though perhaps unfathomable, purpose. We suspect a reason, some powerful, twisted logic. Anomic violence, on the other hand, is truly senseless. Thus crimes of madness elicit from us revulsion; crimes of need (like Jean Valjean's) sympathy; but crimes for fun, for a video game, for no purpose, elicit rage...
...logiciel). While the language may be under assault, French pride--and what would France be without it?--remains / indestructible. "We find it hard to admit direct American influence," says Duhamel with a smile. "In the classroom, for instance, instead of admitting that we have rediscovered the American Revolution, we tend to say we have rediscovered Alexis de Tocqueville, who dissected it, and who was a great French political philosopher...
Life precipitated in the city, the locus of modernism. His own cities were Leipzig, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris and Florence up to the coming of Hitler; Paris and Amsterdam during the war; and refuge, after it, in St. Louis and New York, where he died in 1950. But they tend to merge in his work into a single place. This city was the great human switchboard, the cruncher of experience, where events acquired a formidable urgency and swiftness, where people were forced together and the distances between them grew. It stood for oppression, strain, careful poses and unmediated confessions--above...