Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willingness to confront the worst without flinching." Although the novelist tirelessly seeks beauty in the bodies of women and the abstract movement of dance, a vision of catastrophe always prevails. For Celine, the ultimate truth was death, and the title of his first novel aptly describes the desolate trend of his written as a whole; it is A Journey to the End of the Night...
...fans are fed up with paying first-class prices for secondrate action and minor league treatment while their favorite stars disappear. This trend is surfacing in other sports, and often the players are partly to blame. With reserve clauses falling everywhere and players selling their services to the highest bidders, they may be treading on their own long-range interests. Professional sports are not the escape from reality...
...right to die with dignity.* Though the California bill specifically disavows "mercy killing" and allows anyone designated by the patient to rescind the death directive, California's pro-life forces strenuously opposed the measure as the first step toward euthanasia. Said one Democratic assemblyman, Vincent Thomas: "The trend seems to be to get rid of the senile, insane and crippled people. Our next move will be to get rid of everyone...
...large attendence is part of a trend that has seen the number of Jews attending Yom Kippur services at Harvard double in the last six years, Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, said yesterday...
Perhaps this indicates no trend, perhaps the work of one "modern dance" troupe connects not at all with the current inward spiral of the arts. Hopefully, it's only Tanz-Forum that needs to be reminded that in dance, it's the present, not the thought, that counts...