Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...escape this dilemma; the University of Chicago has smashed the college curriculum into two separate parts. After devoting two years almost exclusively to the "little about a lot", the student is free as an upperclassman to delve into his favorite "lot about a little." It is upon a similar pattern that Harvard's area plan should work out. While turning over the Freshman and Sophomore years to basic and general courses may be criticised as a step backwards, still--as long as the preparatory school fails to provide the broad foundation necessary--the college must take upon itself...
...first act began last September, when James' organization began its Sunday afternoon "discussion groups". The Yankee-American Action quickly evolved upon a sickeningly fascist pattern. Attracting members with the homespun slogan of "Yankee traditions", the YAA was soon busy disseminating thinly disguised anti-Catholic propaganda. Once they were in, Mr. James gave them arm bands, had them buy red shirts, and revealed to them the deeper aim of the organization: founding a totalitarian, one-party state in which Catholics would have no part. Pamphlets were publicly distributed, for example, in which James railed against "this Mick pestilence" and said, "Rome...
...throne. But Broker Pierce's merger with an underwriter has little to do with the New Deal, more to do with his notorious optimism. Favorite Pierce dictum: "I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and half-right." But his latest move follows the classic pattern of the late Financier E. H. Harriman. who always bought at the bottom. Wall Street, long in the dumps (a Stock Exchange seat last week sold at $48,000-lowest since 1918), has to Optimist Pierce and Realist Merrill become a buy again...
Clearing weather over Western Europe last week was the signal for renewed reconnaissance flights from both sides of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate. Allied soldiers restudied their pattern charts to be sure they remembered which planes to shoot at. But still both the Allies and Germany stayed their hands from grand-scale air warfare, for the same reasons that have ruled for 21 weeks: economy of men and planes, fear of reprisal, unpreparedness, weather. But a piece of air news came from London, about a German device...
Last week the House of Commons got its first detailed report on the effects of these measures from Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Hibbert Cross. Tall, fair-haired, direct, pleasant, incisive, 43, a merchant-banker and civil servant of the conservative Eton-Army-business pattern, Ronald Cross is considered one of the most promising of the Government's younger supporters. Politically brash, he nevertheless once thoughtfully sent flowers to an ill and defeated opponent. His present job is to see that the enemy gets no flowers until its funeral...