Word: trending
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Some critics believe that the success of Voyage, with its old-fashioned fantasy world, is further proof that France is getting tired of the often depressing, sometimes brutal "New Wave." Lamorisse concedes that he is against the trend toward "popular, banal tragedy," and his movies plainly seek escape from modern life in their concern with children and animals. Says he: "I'm happy to have been able to free cinema from earth...
Other members of the English Department have observed that the shortage of courses is due to coincident sabbaticals and a changing faculty, but some have frankly admitted surprise. Whatever the excuse or justification, it seems that the dwindling number of courses is indicative of a trend, one that is particularly unfair to students outside the Department and to some non-Honors English concentrators. Even as a one-year phenomenon, it has disappointed many people...
...percentage of honor students in the graduating class has increased from (1929-30) to 51.9 per cent in 1959-60. Graduate students have shown a sharp away from the Humanities into Natural Sciences in the last 30 years. Among undergraduates there is an equal trend to Social Sciences and Natural Sciences concentration...
...campaign plans of Raoul Archambault Jr., who thought he would be running against one of two old-line Democrats: former Governor Dennis Roberts or former U.S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Archambault, a conservative's conservative, has shifted to a frontal assault on Democratic spending. A strong Democratic trend, a big Catholic vote and the proximity of New Englander Kennedy should put Pell over...
...course, all surveys or polls are subject to slight statistical error. However, we have one in North Carolina that we feel is quite reliable. We tabulate automobile bumper stickers to determine the trend of support for presidential candidates...