Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classical languages as disciplines or their value for intensive analysis of the texts. It would be hoped that the lecturers and section men in such a course would have such a knowledge of the languages. A fairly inconclusive course of this type, rather than distorting the texts, would tend to quash some of the rabid and facile generalities beginning "The Greeks thought..." with which many Gen Ed courses abound...
Divinity manager Peers Brewer claimed that the Elis will give the squad stiff competition. "I think it can be safely said that Yale is using ancient Greek mystery rites to win the favor of the gods, whereas we tend to stick to a more stable formula," he said...
Haynes, who uses a light plane to tend his winter trap line, got an inspiration after Mamie Eisenhower dazzled an inauguration ball with a sparkling gown covered with rhinestones. Said he: "A friend of mine, Jack Walsh, is both a trapper and a jeweler. When Mrs. Eisenhower wore that inauguration dress, all shimmering in pink rhinestones, Jack sold all his rhinestones. He ordered more rhinestones, and sold them too. I said to him, why couldn't we get her to wear beaver...
...Cunningham, head of Cunningham & Walsh, Inc., whose clients will funnel $20.8 million into TV this year, told 700 admen in Atlantic City that today's "pallid programing" is fast robbing even the best commercials of their power. Said he: "People will watch programs that bore them, but they tend to tune out their minds, which is bad for advertising...
This book may well be the closest attempt to a Western "Mind of the South" type work, but it fails because it lacks the unity and feeling of a single point of view. The essays, often disorganized, tend to center around one individual as arch-typical instead of examining the variations within the type. They are anecdotal instead of analytical, but perhaps the West has not sufficiently solved its own problems of physical survival to attempt a serious study of its cultural history...