Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Gardner usually came home with a fat briefcase, went to work soon after dinner. Checka recalls that "when we were children, we always went to sleep to the sound of a typewriter." Gardner made a point of placing his desk "right in the traffic pattern for everything in the house" so as not to miss anything...
...appointing the Master so long before the House's opening, the College follows the same pattern it did in the '50's when Quincy House was built. Then John M. Bullitt'43, the first Master, was named well in advance of the completion of construction...
Reared in a prolonged period of world peace, he has a unique sense of control over his own destiny-barring the prospect of a year's combat in a brush-fire war. Science and the knowledge explosion have armed him with more tools to choose his life pattern than he can always use: physical and intellectual mobility, personal and financial opportunity, a vista of change accelerating in every direction...
...Kenneth Keniston, 36, a Rhodes scholar who has concentrated on student psychology, concludes that most of today's college students are a dedicated group of "professionalists." In the meritocracy of the '60s and '70s, he says, "no young man can hope simply to repeat the life pattern of his father; talent must be continually improved." According to Keniston, only about one student in ten deviates from the spartan code of professionalism. "Few of these young men and women have any doubt that they will one day be part of our society," he concludes. "They wonder about where...
...passing the bill, Britain moved far beyond the pattern in the U.S., where only Illinois has legalized private acts. All major European countries except West Germany have eased restrictions on homosexuals. Most Britons seemed relieved that the matter was finally settled. As the London Daily Telegraph later reported, the House was glad to get "this confounded measure out of the way at last...