Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, chairman of the board of editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, rejects the antischool trend. But he concedes there may be good reason for the rising disbelief in the ultimate educability of everyone. Undifferentiated schooling, writes Adler, may be "doomed to defeat by differences in the children's economic, social and ethnic backgrounds and especially differences in the homes from which they come...
...RENEGADE Prime Minister became prominent in Rhodesian politics through opposing British attempts to promote majority government in the early 1960s. He helped form the Rhodesian Front and led the country's secession from the British empire in 1966. Following independence, Smith sponsored the legislative reversal of the trend toward a majority rule in Rhodesia...
Putnam predicted that if the current trend continues the University could finish off the year at a level higher than $1.4 billion...
Even Al Goldstein claims he is concerned about the S-M trend: "I'm uncomfortable with it, but you can't deny it exists." Sex Researcher John Money of Johns Hopkins University predicts it will soon subside, with little lasting effect. Edgar Gregersen, an anthropologist at New York City's Queens College who has been studying sadomasochists, is more concerned. He sees S-M "increasing everywhere. I think there's a certain experimentation going on?a 'deviant chic...
Some who have defended porn are now queasy about the new sex-cum-violence trend. Boston Psychiatrist Otto Marx, who has testified in court in defense of Deep Throat and other hardcore films, draws the line at S-M films like The Story of O. Says he: "It is where this kind of mental and physical violence is being done in the context of sex that I begin to worry." Many are drawing the line at Snuff, a wretched soft-core movie in which a woman is eviscerated and sawed to pieces by a sadistic gang leader apparently modeled...