Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article describing Leet's hypothesis will appear in the latest issue of the Scientific American, out this week. It is Leet's thesis that the pattern of shock waves radiated by a nuclear blast are very different from those of earthquakes and other natural phenomena...
...industries in which the general public has never had a real chance to invest is the $12 billion-a-year advertising business. Last week admen from coast to coast were chattering over the news that a Manhattan agency had broken the pattern by asking...
...gloomier metaphor was ever coined to lend a semblance of shape to man's long struggle through history. Cultures, said Oswald Spengler, are limited biological forms of life?like inchworms, like oak trees, like men. Mysteriously born, they inexorably grow old, decay according to discernible pattern and then die. What is more, Spengler insisted, Western culture has already reached the last stages of its allotted life span...
...been previously found that a significantly higher proportion of boys to whom the father was unacceptable as a pattern of emulation existed among delinquents than among non-delinquents. In the new work it was discovered that the impact of this emotional deprivation, on which much of the building of character depends, is heavier among boys who are characterized by the traits of stub- Stubborness, uninhibited meter responses the stimuli, and acquisitiveness...
...that one of the traits linked to delinquency, stubbornness, does not vary among boys of different body builds. Thus, whether a boy is essentially athletic or physically fragile makes little difference. Another helpful discovery for the parent-substitute to know is that while a father's unacceptability as a pattern for emulation does not in itself contribute to formation of the criminogenic trait of stubbornness in his son, its presence does enhance the boy's delinquency potential