Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather outdated anti-colonialism." "I sometimes feel," said Attlee, "with all friendliness to our American friends, that they are a little apt to stand on the sidelines and leave us to carry the fight." But he too was critical of Makarios' exile. "The rebels of the past generally tend, sooner or later, to be the Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth,"* he observed tartly...
...Divorce. Instead of treating marriage as a social institution, let alone a divine one, U.S. public opinion "tends to regard marriage as a private affair." As divorce becomes more and more accepted as a solution to marriage failures, Catholics tend to feel more and more hardship in denying divorce...
...main strength of the impressionists, both foreign and domestic, was color-and color has always been a sometime thing. Man never has needed a highly developed color sense in order to get around, though he must see shapes fairly accurately, hence his color impressions tend to be comparatively dim, vague and intermittent, and to reproduce badly in the mind's eye. This helps explain why the French inventors of impressionism struck their contemporaries for a time as crazy. In subordinating form to color, they seemed to do violence to nature. And in picturing the sunny dazzle of daytime outdoors...
...conservative point of view, cited "the mind of Hawthorne," which, he said, was "suspicious of change, skeptical of progress, convinced of the terrible power of sin," as the prototype of American Conservatism. He said that liberal reforms do not of necessity bring "prosperity, security, and liberty," and that they tend "to make us identical units in a monolithic society...
...conservative point of view, cited "the mind of Hawthorne," which, he said, was "suspicious of change, skeptical of progress, convinced of the terrible power of sin," as the prototype of American Conservatism. He said that liberal reforms do not of necessity bring "prosperity, security, and liberty," and that they tend "to make us identical units in a monolithic society...