Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whenever anything happens in Harvard Square, the pattern seems to be to blame it on Cambridge youth," he said, adding that neither University officials nor the CRIMSON really know whether the responsible persons were University youths or Cambridge youth. "I'm only interested in protecting the name of our youth," Vellucci maintained...
This did not mean, of course, that the editorial pages stopped taking sides. But even there, the pattern was not familiar...
About the only pattern that endured was stitched by those papers that took no sides at all. About half of the nation's newspapers refused to choose. One last-minute entry in this neutral rank was the New York Daily News-which up to last week had been neutral for Goldwater. The largest daily in the country is not known for its reticence; it gives its readers advice on everything from love problems to safe driving. But in the end the only recommendation that the News had for its readers was to vote...
...strange contempt proceeding that threatened Negro voting throughout Mississippi, but it should have been no surprise. Once on the bench in a state where only 5% of adult Negroes are registered to vote, Judge Cox, 63, has consistently refused to find any pattern of discrimination. Moreover, he has filled trial transcripts in rights cases with gratuitous obiter dicta. At a hearing last March, he referred to a Negro voting registration drive as "grandstanding"; he repeatedly described 200 applicants as "a bunch of niggers" and called them "chimpapzees" who "ought to be in the movies rather than being registered to vote...
What does the Republican Party do now? Plainly, it must start picking itself up, which will take time and cause pain. But the pattern that eventually emerges will almost certainly be designed by moderate men of the center. On a personal level, Goldwater's future as a party power seems bleak indeed. In Republican history, only Thomas E. Dewey managed to suffer defeat (in 1944) and remain the dominant man in the party through the next election. But unlike Goldwater, Dewey had a powerful, well-oiled machine. Moreover, Dewey was beaten in 1944 by Franklin Roosevelt, a wartime hero...