Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of this scholararly trend Harvard's Classics Department--the first department here to dedicate staff, time and foundation money to bring computers into the process of scholarship--is applying the technology in two widely different ways. The first is to aid classics scholars in their effort to obtain the breadth of knowledge necessary for their work. The second is to increase the availability of texts to those studying the classics. Both these developments may change the nature of the field...
...still, she said, the nature of the punishment Brown gives the students is important. "There's been a trend in university policy. The university is trying to clamp down on student activism," she said. "Last night's [hearing] was just another example of that...
...administration officials say they are notresponsible for changing the nature of academicresearch. They say that federal money is onlyfollowing the trend set by the movement ofscientific research towards larger, more expensiveprojects...
...This trend too shall pass, as Hollywood rediscovers the dangerous differences between an art built on artifice and one that tilts toward realism. The theater's delicate conspiracy of pretense and believability can betray the most faithful filmmakers. In close-up, gestures become italicized, speeches sound like sermons, and a powerful actor can look like a ham going over the top. You can spot these fatal flaws in three plays just landing on the big screen. The sound they make is thud...
...Trend number two: condoms. The day has passed when you could get a thrill by walking into a drug store full of old ladies and ask for a box of condoms. Now that "riding bareback" is as dangerous as wearing a Springsteen t-shirt in Lebanon, even the old ladies are clamoring for them. The fabric of the eighties is latex...