Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white, middle-class audience gets younger and younger (Jagger is no longer a 20-year-old playing to other 20-year-olds, but a 28-year-old playing to kids of 15) and, in any case, fewer and fewer musicians nowadays are interested in playing straight gut rock. The trend among musicians seems to be toward a more complex, melodic style that incorporates jazz fusions and extends the vocal phrases instead of locking them solidly into the beat. There are also signs that the mass concert may not be the Grail of musical ambition that it once was, that...
...years as Primate of the Americas. "I have not always talked this way," he conceded in an interview with TIME'S Mayo Mohs. For years his passion was ecumenism, his hope to lead a union of the Orthodox churches in the U.S. But now, says Iakovos, "the trend is not to fight for power and supremacy: it is to fight the inequities of our times...
...reaction to the imposition of Soviet-style repression. The number of baptisms, church weddings, church funerals and applications to seminaries has been steadily rising, and more and more citizens are giving their children religious instruction. Lately, the Soviet-installed regime of Gustav Husák has responded to the trend with a concerted anti-church campaign of discrimination, propaganda and outright repression...
...attempt to keep out dollars, which Common Market countries hold far in excess of their needs. That step is favored by France's Giscard, a vehement opponent of currency flotations. This might quiet the markets, but it would constitute a partial reversal of the post-World War II trend toward freer movement of goods and money across national borders. Some combination of floats and controls is also possible...
...body be buried after use," says Bishop John Ward of Los Angeles. "Whether or not a person donates his organs or, indeed, his entire body to science is, of course, a very personal matter in which we would not want to interfere." Nor do undertakers object to the trend. Many are retained by medical schools to store or transport bodies, and have enough traditional patrons to keep them busy...