Word: pattern
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...ARCO resolution resembles the pattern of shareholder resolutions meant to bring public attention to corporate activities in South Africa, Lawrence F. Stevens '65, secretary of the ACSR, said yesterday. He added, however, that he could not speculate why activist shareholders singled out South Africa and Chile as targets for their proposals when many other developing countries have poor human rights records...
More than 50 years ago, Alfred Whitehead and William James wrote the papers and delivered the lectures than put an indelible stamp on the pattern of Western philosophy--and established Harvard's Philosophy Department as one of the finest in the world. Although the small concentration today barely has the staff to cover Eastern and modern philosophy and requires the unpopular logic course, Philosophy 140, its reputation among scholars is unaltered. Only the opportunities to study philosophy at Harvard have changed and they, many concentrators and professors believe, have probably increased and improved since the days of Whitehead and James...
...action is suffering And suffering is action. Neither does the actor suffer Nor the patient act. But both are fixed In an eternal action, an eternal patience To which all must consent that it may be willed And which all must suffer that they may will it, That the pattern may subsist, for the pattern is the action And the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still Be forever still...
James found the pattern repeated in recessions as well. In the slump of 1938, for example, box office receipts, which had recovered somewhat from their earlier lows, declined again. The last national economic slowdown, which occurred in 1974 and 1975, would probably have been matched by a similar slide in film attendance, James says, if it had not been for the huge success of Jaws, which distorted the figures for the industry...
...takeoff. By the late 3rd century B.C., some artisans were dispensing with the traditional vessel forms entirely, as attested by a container fashioned in the shape of a rhinoceros. Its creator seized on the skin folds around the beast's neck to impose a bold, abstract pattern on a powerfully articulated form. From the tomb of Dou Wan, consort of the 2nd century Han prince Liu Sheng, comes the figure of a kneeling girl. The lamp she holds is pivoted so that light could be directed as her mistress might wish. Smoke from the candle within passes up through...