Word: patternings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discriminatory employment practices of white businesses and limited opportunity in black enterprises resulted in a peculiar pattern of occupational preferences stressing anything but business -- medicine, law, teaching, and the ministry. Williams emphasized the desparate need in the ghetto for "the success image provided for the kids in school" by a black-owned business. This success offers blacks incentive to enter a field they have long forgotten...
...double standard prevailing in this, as in so many other romantic matters, makes it far less acceptable for an older woman to form an alliance with a younger man. Still, there are rich precedents in that pattern as well. Oedipus and Jocasta, of course, represent a sort of ne plus ultra to cultural anthropologist, tragedian and Freudian alike. The French have a fertile background of such affairs. Henry II took his father's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, when he was 17 and she 36. Balzac met his mistress, Madame de Berny, when...
...restore some of his waning sexuality and lost youth. Sexually, at least, he may be sadly mistaken. Many cases indicate that while a man's potency can be dramatically stimulated for a few months by an affair with a younger woman, he will usually revert to the same pattern he had maintained with his coeval wife. According to Sociologist Clark Vincent, on the other hand, there is more likelihood of serious differences in sexual appetite among coevals than among May-December couples. Vincent's theory, however, has yet to be verified...
...Each airline will be free to deck out the passenger cabin as it pleases. In most versions, seats will be 10% wider than those in the current jets. In economy class, there will be rows of nine seats separated by two aisles to form a two-four-three seating pattern; in first class, the pattern will...
...HEAD AND SHOULDERS REVERSAL is a pattern that signals a nasty downturn. If the right shoulder rises higher than the head, chartists say that investors should hold on. If it does not pass the high, chartists advise them to sell -or risk a plunge below the neckline...