Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economist's answer. "Our main error lies in spending for unproductive uses. First, spending for luxury goods by individuals and the state. Second, operating our nationalized industries at a deficit-coal, gas, railroads. Third, the exaggeration of [France's] social laws-some of them tend to cut back production, not increase...
What kind of American becomes a Communist or a fellow traveler? Persistently, both right and left tend to answer the question by referring to a type that logically emerges from the writings of Marx; the pro-Communist is expected to be a poverty-driven, culturally disinherited proletarian rebel. But increasingly the U.S. is aware of another type-not poverty-stricken, not rebellious by temperament, not disinherited by external economic forces but created by a subtle psychological rejection of the values upon which Western civilization has been built. In short, an idealist gone wrong...
Jenner: "That your answer might tend to incriminate...
...passed around, and from time to time someone lit up a ceremonial cigarette (Bull Durham tobacco and corn husks). Until 7:30 the next morning, the big tepee was filled with prayers and gentle chants, and the soft rhythmic beat of the gourd. There was a "Fire Chief" to tend the fire, a "Cedar Chief" to sprinkle powdered cedar into the flames, and a "Drummer Chief" to keep up the music. The ritual varies slightly from tribe to tribe; sometimes, as in a ceremony last month near Window Rock, Ariz., the sacred button is revered as "Father Peyote...
...born Dr. Hayakawa is editor of the quarterly, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, writes books and magazine pieces, and is a devoted jazz fan. Word Man Hayakawa finds the lyrics of most popular songs unspeakably bad. Says he: "The words of true jazz songs, especially the Negro blues, tend to be highly realistic and unsentimental in their statements about life. The words of popular songs . . . pretty much the product of white songwriters for white audiences, are full of wishful thinking, dreamy and ineffectual nostalgia, unrealistic fantasy, self-pity and sentimental cliches masquerading as emotion...