Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem to be living in a rights-oriented society in which the teaching of corresponding responsibilities is progressively neglected. Hence an increasing amount of crime, placing before the bench more and more defendants to be granted further rights. Those of us who dislike the stench of this trend are called "extremists." The club could use more members...
...rare; some programs bristle with such a host of sponsors-and sponsor commercials-that Advertising Age magazine recently took note of a growing consumer hostility toward the products. "The nation," said Kenyon, "is discovering that, by and large, TV is an entertainment medium. There's a definite trend back to print...
Staph & Clots. The surgeon who pioneered the new trend is Amsterdam's Dr. Ite Boerema (TIME, Feb. 15, 1963), on hand last week to receive an honorary membership in the American College of Surgeons at its annual congress in Chicago. Dr. Boerema had begun by using high-pressure oxygen to combat gas gangrene. Reasoning that the microbes that cause gangrene are of types that thrive without oxygen, he succeeded in killing the microbes by flooding them with oxygen. Since then hyperbaric conditions in the operating room have proved a godsend when treating infants with congenital heart defects. Working...
Cartoonists have had fun with the trend, showing stewardesses peddling Cracker Jacks or children being turned away from an "Adults Only" flight. But for a cost to the line of from $50 to $80 a flight, the movies earn their fare. TWA, for example, has increased its passenger business 28% so far this year, and the movies get at least partial credit. TWA has dropped its $1 movie charge in economy class, and most other lines will show their movies free to all classes. What the passenger gets is sound and pictures that are surprisingly clear, though the new systems...
...feels about an issue at the time the poll is taken. In a situation where feelings change rapidly, however, polls cannot be taken close enough to the election to reflect the full impact of the changes. Harris and Dr. Gallup were able to predict in New Hampshire that a trend was running towards Lodge, but they underestimated it. The same was true of the Goldwater trend in California...