Word: trended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozen other cities, Negroes in the past two years have organized to clean up their neighborhoods, finance small businesses, pressure for school improvements and get police action to chase out the "white hunters," white men who crash the ghetto in search of black prostitutes. There is a trend among Negro coeds and career girls to wear their hair "natural" instead of attempting to unkink it by "conking"-rinsing it with lye and binding it with handkerchiefs. Yet for every Negro who flaunts his identity, a hundred try to camouflage it. Advertisements in the Negro magazines still hymn Nadinola skin bleach...
...Question of Price. Washington seems delighted with the slight autumn chill. "The trend," insisted Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr, "is definitely toward a rate of growth which the economy can sustain." Added Chief Presidential Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley: "The economy today is pretty much what I like...
...Trend to Specialize...
Aiken says that the traditional division of courses at Harvard was saved only through "very eloquent opposition, in part by certain humanistically oriented scientists." But the general trend in University education today, at Harvard and elsewhere, is, he says, "in the direction of the forms of specialized research and instruction which are useful to the national society and which therefore receive the largesse of its government...
Judge Reardon, now 56 years old, is still alarmed; he thinks of his work with the ABA Committee as an effort to stop the trend he has long seen in American government. "We are moving away from the rule of law. I remember quite well what I said in Sanders Theatre that night. I would say it is still true. Our daily living has become too complex. Professionally trained people are moving away from involvement in government. Bound up in intense specialties, they lose sight of the larger object of what is good for our democracy. What we need, perhaps...