Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time to Contemplate. Scholars tend to consider their research a product to be sold to the highest bidder-although trying out the same project on different grant givers must be done with some care. "If a foundation thinks that you've got a 10% chance of getting the funds from someone else, they're not going to give you the money," explains one Harvard Ph.D. candidate. For some professors, the pursuit of project money is almost a full-time career in itself. "There is a kind of hustle here, like in the business world," contends John Hodges...
...Expressways tend to divide communities when they cut through them," said Mayor Lindsay, speaking of the Brooklyn project. "But here, a linear city would be a unifying factor instead." The same could as easily be said of the plan to cover over the Park Avenue tracks. Both designs suggest that, in the future, the right side of the tracks to live on will be in one direction...
...journal of record is the quickest road to not being read," Bethell notes, "and we can't afford that. We try, for instance, to avoid a glut of alumni notes. They get readers to subscribe, but they can fill half the magazine unless you weed out the trivia. We tend not to print the 'I-ran-into-Charlie-the-other-day-in-the-men's-room-of-Grand-Central-Station' variety...
Although the Institute will tend to put a greater emphasis on policy-oriented studies, Harvard has strong Political Theory and Philosophy departments which will not be submerged. "The Institute will present tools for those interested in studying policy; it will not force anyone away from studying equally important questions of theory...
Quoting Hannah Arendt, he charges that the bureaucrats tend to "dissolve every statement of fact into a declaration of purpose." "You tell them that poor people aren't getting any of their housing," he says, and their tell you that you are against housing for the poor." In spite of these difficulties, Moynihan and most of his staff believe that evaluation or urban programs is a useful activity for the Joint Center to undertake. Moynihan claims that the Center now tries to make sure, before signing any contracts, that their clients sincerely desire objective criticism. With these safeguards, Moynihan looks...