Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time, Gallup would have ignored those undecideds; if he had done that this year, he would have come within 1% of Eisenhower's actual margin. But Gallup "allocated" the undecideds 2-to-1 and 3-to-1 for the Democrats. That kind of pattern this time, he told his readers, would take Eisenhower and Stevenson into 50-50 country. Some of Gallup's other calculations brought Stevenson out ahead. Pollster Elmo Roper dwelt on "basic conflicts" in voters' minds, refused to indicate how the conflicts would be decided...
Officially, Army looks to win this afternoon, with Dartmouth and Cornell to fight it out for second place. But the Crimson hopes to break up this pattern. According to Coach Bill McCurdy, "Depending on how the boys feel, we can do as badly as sixth, but as good as second." And from the number of upsets the Crimson has authored this year, the second spot looks like it might be theirs...
...added, however, that it does not follow that the same pattern will be true this year, because Eisenhower, unlike Dewey, has put on a "red hot" campaign right...
...much you have enjoyed TIME'S art pages in color, but few of you have gone as far as Reader William E. Farr of Vancouver, Wash. When TIME ran a color reproduction of a Navajo sand-painting (Oct. 8, 1951), Farr decided he wanted to copy the pattern-on a hooked rug. About a year later he sent us the finished product, a 4-by-5-ft. rug. He had spent 320 working hours making enlarged drawings of the painting, transferring them to the monk's cloth used as a base for the rug, selecting colors and hooking...
Lindner's panacea: 1) be "individual" and adopt "positive rebellion" as a pattern and a way of life, 2) root out the "adjustment fallacy" and replace it with the "evolutionary principle of protest," and 3) rebuild the educational system and the science of psychology on "the vital forces of mastery rather than static survival...