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...Changing Pattern. Who are the people who have built this record? Are they back-country farmers with a Bible-banging, hellfire preaching kind of religion that snaps its galluses loudly and contemptuously at other Protestants, all liberals and the Pope? Theodore Adams is one of their most noted pastors, yet he never flails the air with more than a finger when he preaches to his congregation, which includes young executives and their wives, painters, postmen and the managers of chain stores. Are they diehard Confederates to whom a Northerner is necessarily a Yankee and a Yankee is always unnecessary? Pastor...
Perhaps the most typically Baptist thing about Pastor Adams is that he does not conform to the Baptist pattern. And the pattern itself is changing...
...makes little difference why so many Catholics have conformed with the prevailing patterns of anti-intellectualism in our day. Such conformity may be part of the pattern by which our people have in all things sought to demonstrate how thoroughly American they are. In any case, it is unfortunate both for us and for America. Such a suspicious contempt for the intellectual life is far from being a Catholic phenomenon. It is a kink in the American character generally. It is the more unbecoming in Catholics, however, because it is so utterly out of harmony with any authentic
...Council's new policy is more in line with the University's views on liberal education," he pointed out, since the University had always followed a pattern of maximum flexibility in its Engineering curricula...
...only game running against the pattern of consistent ball was the 13-0 Princeton debacle, when every break went against the Elis. Twice they fumbled within the Tiger nine yard line, and both times Princeton men fell on the ball, Penalties, too, played their role, as several Yale drives, including one touchdown, were called back and halted by the referee's whistle...