Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will Harry Truman this year receive the honorary degree that he has been waiting 25 years to pick up? That is the very question that honorary degree trend watchers have been asking themselves all week, to no avail...
Mutual funds are being shaken by an investor revolt. In seven of the past 13 months, the sale of new fund shares to the public has slipped behind redemptions, and the trend is accelerating. In April the excess of redemptions over purchases rose to $250 million, up from the record $194 million in March. Investors are cashing in their shares partly because the funds performed poorly in 1969 and 1970, though they did better than the market averages last year. However, some funds have been able to prosper in the face of the industry depression...
Stuffing Bras. If all this amounts to a trend, then its culmination so far is off-Broadway's Grease, billed as "A New '50s Rock 'n' Roll Musical." Grease's book is a silly boy-girl story, and its music and lyrics are a pastiche of early '50s rock, rarely approaching the authentic inanity of the originals. But it is exquisite and excruciating in its details, from the boys' ducktail haircuts, leather jackets and cool, hang-loose slouches to the girls' cinch belts, nylon blouses, ballet slippers with white socks, pedal pushers...
...recent trend towards diminution in benefits for resident tutors has not been based on analyses which reveal either the value of a system of resident tutors or the risks entailed in curtailing benefits. Such analyses may indicate that, even at present, resident tutors are underpaid...
...does. And he may even be right. At the back of every trend and tendency that mattered, anyway, he manages to find old Ez, puffing and prestidigitating- language theories, borrowings from Greek, Italian and Provençal, imagism, myth and verses from the Chinese. Of course some of the connections are weak, and Kenner is not above a bit of crankery on his own. He often wears his learning like a lead flak jacket and, like Pound, can be pithy to the point of incomprehensibility. But he has a contagious gusto and a splendid ear: the fragments of Pound...