Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vacation in the Virgin Islands, he taped a television interview during which he discussed the exhausting length of the U.S. presidential race. "What we really find ourselves doing with these long, extended campaigns of two and three months is replaying old material," said Hubert. "Therefore I think that you tend to become tired, the public becomes a little tired...
...Charlotte, she will be able to tend her rose garden, aided by her husband, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, 71. A descendant of France's Sun King Louis XIV (1643-1715), the prince long ago stopped gambling with the family fortune and in old age has turned dutiful and thoroughly bourgeois-in fact, Luxembourgeois...
...comic scenes are played a bit too slickly, too much on the surface of the characters. Harvard audiences tend to watch the performance more than the person, and the actors are all too conscious of this. They get isolated laughs with the delivery of individual lines, instead of letting their humorousness emerge slowly. In a comedy of characters, rather than one of wit, this can be fatal. Darryl Palmer's Medvedenko, for example, never becomes more than a caricatured schoolteacher: we never feel his pain...
...might be desireable, am no social outcast and need not make excuses nor intellectualize everyday chores to make them acceptable. Cooking a meal, planning a party, or raising a child do demand ingenuity, skill, an understanding of people, sensitivity, good humor, etc. But put them all together (they tend to group) and you have a well-integrated life which leaves little time to think about its intellectual demands or rewards...
...another reason why a minority regarded Goldwater as "the most significant instrument for political purification since Savonarola." Many people, he explained, confused by statements that seem to conflict with policy as it is practiced, conclude that "the men in charge... cannot be living by their expressed views." These people tend to search, he said, for someone whose words and deeds will be consistent...