Word: trend
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Even in a decade notable for instant nostalgia, 1974 is a remarkable year. The large books, primarily concocted for Christmas buyers, are marked by more longing to look backward than ever before. The trend may in part be due to the Bicentennial celebration that is shortly to engulf Americans; the first wave of titles about the American Revolution is already at hand. It may be too with the future looking the way it does, Americans (publishers as well as readers) simply want to celebrate, enjoy or just get acquainted with the American past. Whatever the cause, the result this year...
...down trend is most pronounced at ABC. Its Monday Night Football telecasts, featuring the logorrheic Howard Cosell, are appearing in 11% fewer households this season than last. Part of the slippage is due to the popularity of two comedy shows, Maude and Rhoda, aired by CBS. For its part, NBC two weeks ago blitzed ABC'S Denver-Kansas City game by a margin of better than two to one with the first telecast of The Godfather...
Honey Fritz's move should start a widespread political trend, that grows to include all those other presidential contenders whose solution to impending nuclear war or Chrysler's laying off 100,000 workers is a plea for renewed trust in the American system. Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), the would-be Democratic front-runner, could set an example in this movement much finer than he has in the last few years, with ceaseless calls for shoring up the "defense" system, not to mention the Saigon government. And President Ford, Jackson's Republican counterpart, could help achieve his expressed desire...
Changing Society. Some parents, feeling that their authority over their children will be further undercut, are dismayed by the trend. But there seems to be growing-if reluctant-acceptance of the fact that in a changing society, such measures are necessary. Sexual activity among teen-agers has increased enormously in recent years, and so have sex-related problems. According to studies conducted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, three out of every ten teen-agers who have had sexual intercourse have at least one out-of-wedlock pregnancy; three-quarters of all teen-age pregnancies occur outside marriage...
...strong chance of gaining strength in any new elections. He says that national dissatisfaction with the Rabin government is manifest, and that Likud's hard line is seen as the only realistic approach to the crisis, by increasingly large numbers of Israelis. Aloni denies the existence of this trend. "There is no rightist swing in Israel-the problem is simply that the government is undefined in its position, and indecision by those in power generally tends to aid the opposition; and in Israel, Likud is the only major opposition force...