Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have blown my average by continually underestimating Yale, so today I'll reverse the trend and pick the Eli over Penn. In the first two games of their present homestand the Bulldogs set a League record for points scored. That was against Cornell and Dartmouth, which have two of the best defenses in the Ivies. Penn has the worst. The temptation, therefore, is to predict an 83-1 margin; but with Princeton and Harvard on the horizon Coach Carm Cozza will probably rest Don Barrows and Brian Dowling most of the game and settle for a 38-7 score...
...years I have been trying to figure out TIME'S absolutely manic obsession with the profusion of one's hair. Aside from your Essay, which is admittedly an observant comment on the trend of the times, 1 am informed in that same issue that David Bellinger is "balding," Jerry Rubin is "wild-haired," Judge W. Harold Cox is "white-thatched," Emperor Rosko is "lion-maned" etc. Is there some deep hidden meaning that is escaping me? Am I being psychologically brainwashed...
...least some of the Marxist mythology, today's Russia is witnessing the gradual reassertion of "the values of individualism, of questioning, of the religious spirit, of the ethical personality, of human relations transcending party comradeship." It is difficult to guess just how far the Kremlin will allow this trend to go. But its existence nonetheless proves that the Russian character has survived Communism with a small corner still devoted to the independent perception of the truth...
...churchmen are enamored of the present passion for radical pronouncement. In a new book called Who Speaks for the Church? (Abingdon Press), Methodist Moral Theologian Paul Ramsey offers a thoughtful critique of the trend to neglect basic ethical ana ysis in favor of particular pronouncements on policy. No fundamentalist, Ramsey is a professor of ethics at Princeton and an ecumenical-minded writer on contemporary Christian problems. Nonetheless, he contends that the "social action curia" of the World and National Councils of Churches has re duced ecumenical ethics to a partisan political movement...
...courses on such topics as "Florence in the Renaissance," and "The Origins of World War I." And sophomore tutorial has been loosened considerably so that tutors can write their own reading list and shape the course around the area they know best. The department now needs to continue the trend it has set with these changes...