Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...received thousands of applications, many from out of state, including a number from Oklahomans who fled to California during the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. Many Viet Nam veterans applied, along with at least one out-of-work aerospace engineer. Despite the trend toward agribusiness, there is a widespread nostalgia for the land. Another applicant is a $190-a-week television film editor who lives in a suburb of Boston. "It's a chance for me to work at something that would be my very own," he wrote. "I'm sick of pollution, demonstrations and riots...
Peterson said he thought the rise in Harvard applications was due more to a return to normalcy rather than a break from any long-standing trend...
...Well, trend-watchers on the Harvard political circuit, yesterday carried the forboding news that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has cancelled a regularly scheduled meeting for the second time this season. "There being no business ready for action upon the Docket," the Docket Committee somberly wrote, "the Dean of the Faculty has recommended, and the Faculty Council has agreed, that the Faculty Meeting of January 11 be omitted." So it goes...
...greats format, and instead chose to weld the twenty or so guest artists, horn section and all, into a band tight enough to make Chicago sound like Cream. The importance of Harrison's move should not be underestimated. If it's at all indicative of a new trend, the rock conert will undergo a radical change...
Brooks Brothers, however, merely sniffs at the trend and professes never to have noticed a slowdown. "We sell as many now as we ever did," says Vice President Ashbel T. Wall. Brooks has no plans to offer the longer-collar version now becoming so popular elsewhere, and will stick with the style that it has sold so well for so many years. "It's nice," he says, "to know you're right...