Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help-the-one-who-fails by the ethic of service for the universal good. The radical is led, in turn, to the inescapable conclusion that the only tactic open to him is to stake out a community of people who share the same life-style. Such a community would tend to have the same political beliefs as well because one's individual orientation towards one's fellow beings cannot help but influence one's political and social outlook...
MANY EUROPEAN leaders tend to discount the argument that the Russian political experts were simply misinformed and believed the Soviets could set up a new pro-Russian regime in Prague quickly and without repercussions outside Czechoslovakia. The Europeans are convinced the Soviets took these factors into consideration and decided that internal homogeneity was more important than good relations with the West...
...riots." One reason for the calm is the tripartite University Policies Commission that Young drew up last winter. Composed of students, teachers and administrators, the commission advises on the university's major policy decisions before they are enacted. Young comments that many student committees "actually tend to be a little conservative, especially where fiscal policy is concerned...
...many corporate employers now seem to have a friendlier attitude toward ex-priests. The Manhattan branch of Bearings for Re-Establishment reports that starting salaries for ex-clerics now range from $7,500 to $20,000. While some have found work as stockbrokers or industrial executives, most former priests tend to translate their spiritual concern into academic or community service. Many seek jobs as teachers-some have even been hired by Catholic schools and colleges-or as social workers. A large number of ex-priests have married former nuns-an understandable result of their common background...
Outrageous subjects that were once shocking sources of satanic laughter now seem hardly ticklish at all. Black Comedians today tend to be admired like TV gagmen and nightclub acrobats -less for jolt than for sheer agility...