Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frenchmen thronged the annual Salon de l'Auto to stare with passionate absorption at the chromium flash and gadgets of the 1959 model cars. These people, the acquisitive bourgeois society described so memorably by Balzac, were the true victors of the referendum. France had voted conservative-matching the trend in every major Western European nation today...
...another important trend, Sorokin noted a "shift in the creative leadership of mankind" from its traditional seat in Europe to a wider area, including the Americas, Asia, and Euro-Asian countries, notably Russia...
...Pollster Lubell, what all the conflict added up to was Republican confusion: "Although the Republicans are everywhere on the defensive, one gets the feeling that their potential strength is much greater than the voting trend indicates. In fact the Republican voting forces today seem like a leaderless army. Surprisingly large numbers of voters complain, 'We don't know what the Republican Party stands for.' Whether at this late date the President can answer that question may make the difference between a rout and a close election...
...read, and producers have always liked movies about books-or at least about book titles. But never before have the moviemakers so eagerly turned the bestseller lists into production schedules. Hollywood now has nearly 500 books in some stage of production. The man who is leading the book trend, galley proofs flying and reading glasses agleam, is a glib, moon-faced middleman of culture named Jerry Wald...
...tendency to be pleasingly vapid. For instance, "students and faculty are united on one article of faith: the greatness of the Harvard idea." Not too many people would quarrel with that, but then what is "the Harvard idea?" Commenting on a certain lack of intellectual daring, Boroff says: "The trend is toward synthesis, possibly encouraged by the electric and integrative character of the General Education courses." To this reader, it would seem rather that Harvard tends to be overly analytic, despite Gen-Ed packages, but why, anyway, should synthesis mitigate zeal, as Boroff suggests...