Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whenever French Sociologist François de Singly stopped in his wife's office in the early evening, the pattern was almost always the same: the married men and single women were working overtime, and nearly all of the single men and married women had gone home. "It was striking," says the sociologist, who has specialized in family studies and taught for twelve years at the University of Nantes. "It was married men and single women working the longer hours...
...possibility that these people are monomaniacal monsters is never raised. Readers steeped in Earth's work-five earlier novels, including The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), and two collections of shorter fiction-may be able to deny or evade this issue. Art is pattern and design, after all, not morality. Or, on another front: a writer must use material, however unpleasant, not weep over or try to correct it. Fine. But those who feel claustrophobic in the presence of smug, self-deluded solipsism may also decide to skip the whole experience. Barth has often been a pleasant guide through...
...probably would boil "veritas" and justice. These values we both cherish, and we have tried out best to live in accord with them. But we do no believe Harvard has done so. Rather, as we have examined the record and experienced this University, we have seen a long term pattern of failure to protect the civil liberties of students and faculty, cooperation with government witchhunts, discrimination in faculty appointments on political, racial and sexual grounds, and failure to take a strong and truly moral position against those forces which perpetuate discrimination and injustice. We have concluded that Harvard...
Harvard social scientists agree that the recent flurry of tenure offers reflects a pattern of increased attention in quantitative researchers over the past couple of decades...
...confront--the unwillingess to let people solve their problems by themselves. Hit-and-run reformers with "we know what's good for you" attitudes will never provide the lasting solutions to problems that community-based efforts can achieve: Citizens' groups made up of ordinary neighborhood residents can establish a pattern of lawfulness in a community, one that an externally imposed "solution" would find difficult to match...