Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Frank Herbert wrote Dune: the sci-fi world is still recovering from that one. Men reading Dune tend to forget who they are: coming out of it. I felt like Rip Van Winkle after a twenty-year dream. Herbert's universe is rich and beautiful: more important, it is inexplicable. It is to be experienced, not reported...
...today that students tend to believe that everything is relative, all standpoints are arbitrary, "truth" is an illusion, we are all helplessly conditioned, and the world will one day be run by computers and manipulative social scientists? Who taught them these fairy tales? Why do they cling to them so tenaciously...
...things can go no farther than Z: the alphabet and the ideological film. Traditionally, political movies tend to be newsreels with strident sound tracks or windy polemics pretending to be conversation. Scenarist Jorge Semprun (La Guerre Est Finie) knows better. So does Director Costa-Gavras (Sleeping Car Murder), who correctly calls Z an "adventure film" against a system...
...central issue of Harvard debate on the Project, then, is whether, the University should join M.I.T. as an institutional sponsor. Conservatives tend to minimize the significance of co-spon-soring the Project; the majority of the Brooks subcommittee justified Harvard participation with the following argument: since Harvard people will be involved in the Project anyway, it said, "Harvard as an institution . . . must accept responsibility for the direction and balance of the work by sharing control of the enterprise with M.I.T...
...members of the Harvard faculties are to participate in re Project in a substantial way. I believe it to be very important that Harvard is represented on whatever Board determines Project policies. If these "representatives" are simply self-appointed individuals, my judgment is that their views will tend to become less influential over a period of time than if they have been appointed to the task, by the President, on the basis of an informal agreement between the two institutions. However, my judgment may be mistaken. If M.I.T. decides to give full weight to the opinions of individual Harvard members...