Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately the investigator blew up three fallacies: 1) that smart children tend to be frail; 2) that girls are smarter than boys; 3) that smart children are "onesided." Medical and anthropometric tests showed that Terman's group was healthier, and, in general, physiologically superior to the average. In the grade-school section the ratio of bright boys to bright girls was 6-to-5, in the high-school section 2-to-1. As a group the bright kids showed versatility in information and school activity...
...good deal more sophisticated musically than the audience of five years ago; through records and the radio, it has gotten to know much great music, and it demands in consequence a more varied fare than the old concert repertoire. Laziness, too, may account for the way conductors tend to neglect many equally good, but less known works. It takes time, energy and patience to train as orchestra in a new piece, which may be the reason why Barbirolli continues to ride his hobbyhorses of Weber overtures when he might well be exploring the overtures of Gluck and Handel...
Inevitably through this treatment, Clark tends to overemphasize the psychological battles within the minds of each individual in the lynching mob. He seems to endow the characters with a hesitance, a doubtfulness about the righteousness of their course which would not exist in reality. The lyncher when in white heat blazes with his hate, he does not consider in rational terms. Clark's lynchers tend to think too much...
...Developing all last year, intellectual tension is now at the breaking point between President Alan Gottlieb's pro-aid-to-Britain, pro-Roosevelt group, and the Marx-Stange faction favoring no aid to Britain and branding Roosevelt as a war-monger. Inevitably the break will weaken the HSU, and tend to depress still further the strong but gradually waning student sentiment for keeping America out of war. This is too bad, and everything possible should be done to keep the effect from being too demoralizing...
...Aaron Copland has solved so consummately, is to compose a score which fulfills the requirements of the action and at the same time stands on its own feet as a piece of music and an expression of the composer's self. Most screen scores, even the more recent ones, tend to stick pretty closely to certain standard formulae. To compose music for a comedy especially leaves little leeway for originality, although Prokofieff's comic score to Lieutenant Kije, now recorded as a separate suite, is a masterpiece of its kind. A couple of years back, movie composers tinkered with classical...