Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faith & Doubt. Everywhere the new President was beset by signs of liberty sliding out of control. The endless sweep of the frontier had recently been shut off; the trend was on to the tenement. Capital, levering itself out of the chaos of cutthroat competition, was forming monoliths of monopoly. Labor was adolescent, agitated, angry. Government at best was minimal and at worst could be bought. The radical vote was rising. Said Theodore Roosevelt: "There had been in our country a riot of individualistic materialism . . ." But the darker portent, as the new President saw it. was that the nation was lurching...
...power play in Congress with the G.O.P. right wing, after ^a masterful display of coalition-juggling and issue-juggling, T.R. also got for the Interstate Commerce Commission the right to fix railroad rates. T.R. was thus the great working pioneer of the 20th century's whole new trend toward federal commissions to watch over key sectors of public welfare...
...should include and require a much larger portion of the liberal studies. We must work toward the view that an educational leader is not merely an organization man but should be primarily an intellectual, a scholar, and a man of ideas. This will represent a sharp reversal of a trend of the past 30 years, but a reversal we must make if educational leadership at the level of ideas is again to be returned to the hands of the professional group...
...emotional side the trend is toward lessening parental tension. Instead of a rigid schedule, which prescribed the exact numbers of hours of sleep a youngster must have from year to year, there is now a permissive page simply to record how he sleeps. A stern "Development of Character" page, with the injunction, "Children must be taught emotional control," has been dropped entirely...
...Clayton Buell, an official of the Philadelphia public school system, warned his colleagues of the dangers of a popular pedagogical trend. Said he in the current Clearing House: "The group determines all, in school. Pupils are made to feel they must go along with the group . . . Even the extremely gifted pupil is told, 'What you need is to go out and play marbles with the other boys.' And we are partly right-he does have to learn to get along, but does he need to lower his interests and his actions to the average? . . . We have taught well...