Word: trended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third, more subtle," trend "comes from the acceptance, almost uncritically, of certain ideas,"--such as the proper role of the armed forces in the United States...
...Americans take that view, while only 11% believe that mora1 standards have risen. Those who feel that morality has improved point to increased concern for racial and social justice and to widespread revulsion against the war in Viet Nam. The majority that finds a decline in standards attributes the trend more than anything else to increased emphasis on sex, crime and violence in newspapers, magazines, books, TV and films. Another often cited cause is that "people are more materialistic...
...evidence that colleges are more than willing to stop playing the role of puritanical parental surrogates. At Antioch College in Ohio, where all but three dorms are coed, Associate Dean Jean Janis explains why: "The more responsibility you give students, the more they are able to assume." The trend disturbs some parents, especially those with daughters. Yet most school officials maintain that coeducational living does not lead to increased sexual activity. According to Stanford Psychologist Joseph Katz, an incest taboo develops in coed dorms as a result of a brother-sister relationship between the residents...
...telepathy, seances and other "psi" phenomena. He happens to be vice president of a group called the Churches Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies, whose patrons include 20 bishops of the Anglican Communion. One of the fellowship's basic concerns is with what it considers a "highly agnostic" trend: the diminution of belief in the traditional Christian doctrine of life after death. Not only does such skepticism deny comfort to the kin of the dead, says the fellowship, but it raises profound questions about "what the raison d'etre of the church can really...
Every tub on its own bottom. The university . . . will given all the help it can. Yet the choice that faces all Deans or Department Heads is clear: in respect to any new programs, either find new resources, or go without. In respect to the increasing trend of operating expenses, either find new rseources or curtail program...