Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeling that a light-skinned Negro is higher on the social scale than a darker one, Negroes have traditionally suffered from their own, as well as the white man's, prejudices. The isolation of most affluent Negroes from the civil rights struggle has been part of the same pattern...
Last week that pattern was significantly altered. Forty-seven of the country's most successful Negroes formed the National Negro Business and Professional Committee and announced that it will raise $1,000,000 a year to subsidize the N.A.A.C.P. legal-defense and educational fund. Individual Negro contributors will be asked to give $1,000 to help the fund represent any citizen, white or colored, in civil rights suits-mostly to implement civil rights legislation of recent years...
...stockings two inches above the knee. And for Palm Beach, the Duchess of Windsor is packing along a pair of Givenchy's yellow knee socks to go with her Dior cullotte. What ever the length, bright, solid colors are in and applied dimensional texture is out; the pattern, if any, is now being knit right into the fabric...
...similarity of the two random samples (from the Classes of 1964 and 1965) in the senior years makes us suspect that there may be something to the idea of a typical Harvard pattern. If a given class varies from this on entrance, slight though this variation be, there is a shift toward the typical pattern by graduation...
...mands, a student in this college is quite free from requirements. At the same time there is great latitude given to constellations of personality attributes and activities which are prestigeful. There is no one pattern that characterizes a student as a "big man on campus." As a matter of fact, prestigeful student roles are de-emphasized. The net result is freedom to be oneself. Therefore, pressures to change, to conform to some pattern, are not great...