Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infant mortality, it stands twelfth among all nations. The life expectancy of U.S. men is only 18th in the world. In ratio of doctors to population, the U.S. ranks 15th. This low rating for the world's richest country is partly due to the fact that U.S. doctors tend to cluster in urban areas, where there are better hospital facilities and more opportunity for consultation, leaving a lethal shortage in remote and rural areas. Another reason is that the poor, the Negroes and other minority groups do not get the medical care available to most of the population...
McHenry feels that Santa Cruz is off to a fine start. He regrets that about 10% of his students "aren't mature enough" to handle the lack of grade pressure, tend "to drink beer and horse around." He says they must be culled out next year. The best indication of the optimism about the Santa Cruz experiment is that some 4,000 teachers have applied for jobs there, and more than 2,100 students have applied for the 475 positions in next year's freshman class...
...could send in bulldozers and florists to make a garden where Viet Nam once stood. We could do this in other trouble spots to teach the population that when we say "peace," we mean "peace." Soon we would have a world of beautiful gardens-but no people to tend them. But we can't have everything...
...rating for his "perceptive and stimulating presentation of Shakespeare." Good teachers often rate student raves. The American University guide calls English Instructor Peter Scott "great, dynamic, interesting, interested, alert and careful when grading, the most valuable and worthy freshman English teacher at A.U." In general, the student judgments tend to be fair. "Students have a marvelous, ironic ability to see through bull," says Vincent Scully...
Better with Rats. All of these teachers, and the others on the cover, have some common qualities that tend to dispel what Cornell's Perkins calls the "marvelous smoke screen" teachers have thrown up to convey the notion that "what they are doing is an occult mystery." All have demonstrated sound scholarship through publication. All are immersed in a conviction that their scholarship has an irresistible relevance to life, and feel compelled to convey that relevance. And all believe that in sights, ideas, ways of thinking, methods of inquiry, are far more important to implant in young minds than...