Word: pattersons
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Pittman's suggestion appealed to the Times's new editor, Eugene Patterson, who came to Florida last May. A Pulitzer prizewinning veteran of the Atlanta Constitution and the Washington Post, Patterson too was disenchanted with the detachment of traditional editorials. He had worked as a journalist during the Southern integration disputes of the 1960s. Of those days Patterson recalls: "I was constantly puzzled by my inability to make a rational argument heard. The reader tunes out what threatens him. You have to let him know you understand his position...
...that can be difficult. Pittman worries that the format could occasionally reinforce bigoted or lunatic-fringe positions by making them seem legitimate. Despite such reservations, the editors are convinced that the pro-con page is doing what an editorial page ought to do: inform and influence public debate. Says Patterson: "You disarm the reader. Communication is the art of getting what you say received, not just saying...
...memoranda submitted to the Review Committee, Martin Kilson, professor of Government, Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, and Dean Epps urged that mandatory joint faculty appointments and joint concentrations be initiated. They did oppose student participation on the Department's committees. The recommendations of the Review Committee correspond quite cloudy to those offered last year by Azinna Nwafor, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies...
...rubbed some of the luster from David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank, the world's third largest. Last week Chairman Rockefeller made two related announcements. The bank's third-quarter earnings were down 10% from last year, to about $35 million. More surprisingly, President Herbert P. Patterson, 47, had resigned after scarcely three years in the $172,500-a-year job that he had reached after a 23-year career with Chase, his only employer. He was replaced by tough-minded Willard C. Butcher, 46, previously the vice chairman in charge of planning...
...Saying something like that is like believing that people want to leave concentration camps to get better beds," Patterson said...