Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pattern. Tall, henna-haired Mazo de la Roche had written Mary Wakefield in the pattern of other Jalna novels. The setting was southern Ontario, where Mazo herself was born about 60 years ago ("I am not old enough to be proud of my age") and it was written not far from the countryside the author described...
Chairman Sloan's stand-pattish conclusion: "Our primary concern must continue to be with those who really know opera and support it, those who believe in its basic pattern, those who love opera for what it is, not what someone else thinks it should be." There was no immediate response from Met Critic No. 1 Billy Rose. George Sloan's shafts had been flung just 30 hours after Billy (see PEOPLE) had flown off on a trip around the world...
...after Christmas a new development struck at the work-pattern of the efficient and adamant gate-closers. The College opened a bright, new, functional library and said it was specifically for the undergraduate. And the undergraduate dutifully hurried over to take a look. Freshmen found a long but adequate approach sweeping in past Widener and Houghton; upperclassmen found a large steel gate. Some trudged sadly along the well-worn route swinging almost over to Lehman Hall. Less determined students shuffled down to Cronin's or back to their rooms. Lamont attendance began to fall perceptibly...
There is a less frenetic opposition to federal controls: some educators fear that administrative standards will be the opening wedge in a campaign of standardization all along the line that will gradually stiffen U. S. education into one unshakable pattern. They pass around the story of the French Minister of Education who proudly declared that at any given moment he could tell what page of what text-book each child in the country was reading. American education needs to be supported by national funds, these educators admit, but diversity and the chance to experiment are too important to lose...
...adjust itself to a boom which had changed its character. It was no longer chiefly based on scarcities and stored-up war demand, but on full employment, and replacement demand, shored up by enormous federal spending. Businessmen would have to cut their prices to a new pattern of shrinking markets in many lines; labor would have to recognize that decreasing employment would bring a sort of buyers' market there also. It might have to reconsider "fourth round" wage demands in the light of benefits from a drop in the cost of living. By reasonableness on both sides, there...