Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repugnant as the McCarthy-Army hearings are, there is hope that from bad seeds may come good fruit. Of immediate significance is the growing awareness among Americans of Senator McCarthy's evil and menace. That this is belated is regrettable, of course, but the trend is certain and encouraging...
...make his selections in person, favors abstract art, and the scattering of representational pictures in his exhibition looks almost as out of place as dogs at a flower show. But Sweeney carefully points out that the exhibition is not meant to be a cross section or to indicate a trend...
...full-time symbol, unable to buy a new necktie without illustrating "conspicuous consumption,'' or to fall in love without serving as a comment on "bourgeois morality." But in recent years, the businessman has been emerging as a human and something of a hero. The trend seems transatlantic. In the past year Britain's Nigel Balchin published Private Interests and in 1952 the U.S.'s Cameron Hawley contributed Executive Suite. Fresh bows to the businessman are now made by Britain's Socialist Novelist J. B. Priestley in The Magicians and the U.S.'s Republican Novelist...
...true, however, that there is a tragedy about Bard--one which its present students, faculty and administration are well aware of. The trend in American higher learning has certainly drifted from freedom to conformity in thought and action. Not only is Bard sorely in need of financial assistance, but it needs the assurance of the academic, professional and business worlds that a Bard graduate will not be handicapped by his "uncommon" education. . . . . Wendy Gluck, Brandels University
...Governor Talmadge said yesterday, the Supreme Court's decision abolishing segregation in the schools is without a legal precedent. But it has ample precedent in the public opinion of the majority of the country. The Court's decision yesterday was not a reversal, but a reflection of a national trend that has become increasingly noticeable in recent years...