Word: segmentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...million citizens who can properly be described as baseball fans. Of these, perhaps 48 million have long had in common a hatred and resentment of the long triumphant New York Yankees. As of last week, the Yankee haters could move over: they were being joined by a considerable segment of that beleaguered U.S. minority, the Yankee buffs...
...important aspect of college is that it removes most students from the conservative influence of home and establishes a community easily amenable to self-organization, discussion, and collective action. No other segment of the Negro community is organized so. Although college students are assembled fundamentally for the purpose of education and the social trappings that usually accompany it in this country, close association for these purposes blends readily into the possibility of organization for other purposes of common concern...
Much of the other writing in First Person is quite good, but, as far as I am concerned, the most important segment of the entire issue is not prose at all, but the remarkable drawing of Edward Gorey. Mr. Gorey is one of the great geniuses of our time, and it would be deplorable that his ineffable abilities were so little known if it weren't that the beauty of his work is increased by one's realization of its total obscurity. Some may recall that Gorey designs covers for Anchor Books, but his actual magnificence is only...
...lectures, or try to. The diffuse dabble, without much plan, through the course material, often achieving very little. As the Fall progresses, linears divide into a group which works ever more intensively and one which begins to learn the ropes and read selectively. The diffuse split into a segment which appears to be learning the ropes--actually begins to work fairly intensively along lines of personal interest--and one which achieves almost nothing, eventually leaving College or adopting an entirely different approach if they are not so talented that they do not need to study...
...sold, cause a big change in price. To make markets broader, the New York Stock Exchange argues that margins, which now require a buyer to put up 90% of the price, should be reduced, since there is far less credit buying in the market than in any other segment of the economy. But the Federal Reserve Board has shown no signs of giving...