Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Staggering Statistics. But Los Angeles is only the latest example of what has become a major new trend in U.S. life-listening and looking and reading and doing the things uppercased as Art. The statistics of the change are staggering...
Prosperity is a major factor-and the leisure that prosperity has brought on a scale unknown to any other culture in the history of mankind. And once the trend began, it has been augmented by feedback from all the institutions that serve society. The universities have been reaching out more and more into the communities around them, staging lectures, recitals, plays and debates to which the public is invited. The foundations are handing out more and more money for cultural causes-an estimated $50 million this year. In 1964, for instance, the Rockefeller Foundation made grants to seven symphony orchestras...
Sartori, who is a professor at the University of Florence, went on th summarize Italy's foreign policy. "The general trend in Italy on these matters is just to drag along," he said. "I don't think that at his moment we have any foreign policy at all." Sartori attributed this to the impossibility of acheiving a concensus between the Italian left and right wings...
Victorian Finishes. No matter how questionable its content, much of the new sculpture is painstakingly crafted. The practitioners of junkyard assemblages have dwindled. Brutalism for its shock effect is on the wane. A new trend is the number of works that are neatly packaged in boxes, which Sir Herbert Read recently thought should be labeled "furniture" rather than "sculpture." Random objects glitter behind glass in the work of Joseph Cornell and Mary Bauermeister; even Louise Nevelson's newest darkling orts of woodwork are kept as purely as blackfish in glass bowls...
...supranational racism is the trend with some of the African and Asian leaders, and in some respects it is not unlike the racism of Hitler Germany," Freyre said. He pointed to the recent alaughter of whites in the Congo...