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...those days, according to Lattimore, the urge to conform was a motivated one, ascribing to itself certain goals. Today, he sees the conformist pattern of society as of a different nature. "The generation of the past four years has been more apathetic, lethargic, and non-causy." This leads people, as he says, "to become interested in hi-fis, instead of politics...
...standard pay to $24.25 a day. John L. has generally accepted labor-saving machinery and consequent boosts in productivity, but these have not been enough, soft-coal companies implied in announcing that prices would go up after Jan. 1. Economists guessed that the increases would set the pattern for hard coal prices, would be reflected in higher prices in steel and eventually through the rest of the economy...
From San Andres in mountainous Huila Department came bloody news: a band of Conservative partisans had swept through town and, in the pattern of Colombia's decade-long, interparty war, massacred 38 men, women and children, mostly from Liberal families. Then, in Bogota, citizens spotted black-suited gunslingers drifting into town...
Saturday's game followed somewhat the same pattern as have the Crimson's last three contests: the varsity was slightly outplayed in the first period, held its own in the second, let down in the beginning of the third, and then came on hard at the end of the game. Harry Pratt played his second straight good game, turning away 34 shots...
...this speech as an attack on Radcliffe, the author is actually concerned not with coeducation but with the independent woman's college, and mentioned Radcliffe only once, favorably. The printed version is indebted to many helpful comments made by participants in the Sarah Lawrence conference. its leaders. Usually this pattern is more or less hereditary, with people learning their roles by continual exposure since childhood to the prerequisite values and attitudes. Professional people learn the mores of professionalism by having professional parents, and businessmen are raised from childhood to take over father's business. But in our highly complex society...