Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue came up this year that didn't fit into the streamlined pattern. In mid-November, a small grassroots community organization asked Harvard to help it oppose a power plant in Arkansas...
Toward the end of the talks, Kissinger received some timely assistance from Russia's Andrei Gromyko, who invited himself to Damascus while the Secretary was there. The Soviet Foreign Minister arrived so suddenly that his plane had to be put into a holding pattern for 20 minutes while Syrian officials were collected to receive him. The Russians were nervous?with reason ?about being overshadowed by Kissinger, but Gromyko's talks with Assad actually helped Kissinger along. They emphasized to both sides the big-power interest in the negotiations and underscored old Middle East fears that the superpowers might...
...take photography away from its documentary role. A kind of ecstatic nature worship has provided the impetus for Adams' work since the '30s, not only on the large scale but on the small as well: witness an image of stems floating on black water, a pattern as subtle and vivacious as those of old Japanese textiles...
Comparing a group of women interviewed before their dormitories were open to males with a matched group who had been living on the same floor with men for several years, Reid found little to worry about in the new pattern of housing. A few more of the women rooming in the coed dorms were having long-term love affairs than those in all-female dorms, but casual sex was no more common. Women students discovered that they can develop enduring platonic friendships with men and that they are far less self-conscious around them...
Although Harvard has not allowed Pei to discuss the new plans for the library, sources said last week that the new proposal will include two completely separate scaled-down buildings, to be constructed in brick to conform with the pattern established by surrounding Harvard Houses...