Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CURIOUS (YELLOW). Yes, yes, this is the movie everyone is talking about, but, as in all gossip, things tend to get exaggerated in the retelling. To set the record straight: the drama is nonexistent, the style derivative, the sociology boring and the sex a passionless fake...
...reason for the split is that there are really two kinds of intellectuals today: 1) the physical scientists and many (if not all) social scientists, who tend to be reasonably well satisfied with their inside roles in government, industry and the universities, and 2) the philosophers and literary intellectuals, who feel more or less like outsiders. This is basically the problem of the "two cultures" described by C. P. Snow. At the same time, many intellectuals are defecting from the first group and joining the second...
Another example is Negro eating habits. Unlike white Americans, who tend to dine with their families at certain ritual hours, many blacks eat whenever they feel like it, taking food from pots and dishes that always seem to be simmering on the kitchen stove. In Africa, tribesmen still leave food on a fire in the middle of the village for everyone to sample. Another Afro-American characteristic is the habit of eye rolling. Typically, blacks roll their eyes upward when they are daydreaming; preoccupied whites gaze vacantly into space...
Analyzed monthly by the Commerce Department, the leaders are indexes that tend to foreshadow the pattern of production, paychecks and prices. In October, the leaders began to level off; for the next five months they zigzagged. During March, to judge by the eight indicators for which the results were in last week, they dropped about 1 %. The apparent shift of the leaders strengthens forecasts of a salutary slowdown in the second half...
Portent of Decline. The consumer price index, of course, is a better indicator of the past than of the future direction of the economy. Says Economist Arnold Chase, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "Prices tend to coast up even after the economy has begun to cool off. There has been no fuel added to the fire for several months." Several special circumstances, moreover, contributed to the March price increases. One was the fact that high interest rates were suddenly included in the figure for home ownership costs. Prices for used cars, which swung downward temporarily last year...