Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doty attacked the "popular notion" that the Russian challenge exists only in science and material progress. "While watching our comparative production curves," he noted, "we tend to overlook certain problems in education, for instance." A million Russians speak English, he said, and a "dynamic concern for learning English penetrates much of the society...
...series of powerfully delineated situations in which the loyalty to a national cause is set up against the more universal demands of humaneness and mercy. A German doctor (Maria Schell) working as a nurse in a line hospital in Yugoslavia is kidnapped by partisan guerrillas and forced to tend their wounded. At first she refuses, tries to escape, but gradually she comes to see that the partisans have as much of a claim to her ability to prevent suffering as her countrymen have. She is traitorously happy with the roving bands of peasant soldiers until one day a German prisoner...
Such a description of the plot makes it sound melodramatic, which it is. The unlikelieness of her meeting the sergeant again, and the often unrealistic tenor of the dialogue, in which peasant women tend to talk in profound concepts of duty, etc., when isolated seem corny. But the situation can hold the actors in such a tension of dramatic excellence, and the film as a visual whole exerts such a physical impact, that the inherent melodrama and sentimentality blur into unimportance...
Section men in Government 1 tend to prefer sections containing both Harvard and Radcliffe students rather than homogeneous groups, Hoffmann noted...
Ironically, it is the most repellent qualities of the Clubs that give the system this advantage. Their snobbishness, their secrecy, their uncreativity, their preoccupation with an isolated social world all tend to dissuade most undergraduates from any any wish to join. Dean Bender, in the same breath as he criticizes the Clubs for "narrowness," feverently hopes "that the Clubs never start getting democratic." If the Clubs were to elect people on a basis of creative merit, he points out, then undergraduates might really begin to care about joining. The Clubs would become a generally recognized elite, and the punching season...