Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost cause, however. Hubbard claims she wants to write music that "is felt but not heard." She tries to buck the trend in modern jazz and revive the purely romantic side of jazz. In her music, Hubbard states, she is "not trying to be any structured thing. In all of us we have the dreamer...
Condemning the "frivolity and triviality" of the "sporting around dachshunds," Gardner said she is unhappy with the current trend towards technical jargon and over-interpretation...
...council candidate has ever run as well as David Sullivan, who appealed in large part to the new voters--students and tenants in particular. Sullivan waged a traditional campaign--pressing the flesh, ringing the doorbells--and he built up a large network of volunteers independent of the CCA. The trend is obvious down the line. Francis Duehay'55, who also ran a high-budget, high-profile campaign, finished stronger than ever before in his re-election bid, only a few hundred votes behind Sullivan. And the candidate who relied most on old-line liberal CCA connections, Mary Ellen Preusser, finished...
Without slower pay hikes, oil-induced inflation would have soared even faster. Schultze says his main goal now is to continue the moderate wage trend so that higher oil prices will not ripple more inflation through the whole economy...
...trend that invites such inquiries has been developing for quite a while. It had started well before it was dramatized in the memorable gymnastics of Sammy Davis Jr. flinging his little arms about Richard Nixon. Franklin Roosevelt, in fact, enlisted Playwright Robert Sherwood as a ghost, and subsequent Presidents increasingly turned to theatrical artisans for help, especially after TV got big. By the 1970s the political scene seemed so stagey that Anthropologist Edmund Carpenter was moved to say that "the White House is now essentially a TV performance." He exaggerated, but not by much...