Word: trended
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...home schooling and workplace ministries as part of a "seminal transition that may be akin to a third spiritual awakening in the U.S." Jeffrey Mahan, academic vice president of Denver's liberal and institutionally oriented Iliff School of Theology, doesn't go that far, but he does think the trend is significant. American participation in formal church has risen and fallen throughout history, he notes, and after a prolonged post - World War II upswell, big-building Christianity may be exhaling again in favor of informal arrangements...
...plus ca change . . .'' impression given by your piece on children's toys (LIVING, Dec. 22). Are you assuming that Rambo occupies the same role as Daniel Boone or Superman in children's fantasies and contributes in the same way to their moral and social development? If the historical trend toward more explicitly violent heroes is so benign, why have we seen such a dramatic increase in real violence in our society over the past several decades...
...fundraises and acquiesces, and he occasionally mouths self-affirming statements that make the Faculty of Arts and Sciences feel good about itself. The University President does not question the Faculty’s commitment to undergraduate education. It does not matter that you were trying to reverse a pernicious trend where 50 percent of students receive A’s and A-’s; it does not matter that you were trying to make undergraduate education at Harvard visionary and comprehensive once more.If you fight the Faculty, you will lose. You will not lose because you are wrong...
...them to 1-0.”The Crimson powerplay struggled against the potent St. Lawrence offense and tight defense, managing only five pucks on net during its six chances. Harvard’s inability to find the back of the net during powerplays has become somewhat of a trend lately as the Crimson has dropped in the national rankings for special teams efficiency.—Staff writer Gabriel M. Velez can be reached at gmvelez@fas.harvard.edu...
...really possible that a topic that preoccupies every mom I know is of little interest at all to the dads? The ratio of trend stories about Mommy Wars to Daddy Wars runs about 1000 to 1, if you leave out stories about hockey dads brawling on the sidelines. I have a couple of theories about this, but when I do my unscientific survey of evolved, educated, engaged dads, none of the answers really explains the missing half of the Work and Family debate. In fact when you hear a man talking publicly about wanting to spend more time with...