Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STUDENT: Well, how about these samples from Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons: "Adaptation, goal-attainment, integration and pattern maintenance...
STUDENT: They agree to maintain the wider values of the culture. That's pattern maintenance...
...1960s terrorized both Caracas and the countryside, murdering policemen, blowing up pipelines, and bombing department stores. Two years ago, the rebels began to lose their momentum and holed up in the hills. Last month a bombing here, a machine-gunning there seemed to signal a return to the old pattern. Last week came a climax of sorts: in separate ambushes, FALN gunmen assassinated a member of the highest military court and wounded the army chief of staff...
Their credentials are certainly impressive, but the Big Red can be beaten if Harvard plays at its peak, hustles all out, and doesn't allow itself to be flustered by the hard-hitting opposition. This is the pattern of play the Crimson exhibited in upsetting Clarkson...
Town v. Gown. Heyns also refused to seek dismissal of charges against the seven nonstudents and four students arrested in the disorder, insisting: "We have no intention of accepting a pattern of granting general immunity to all violators of student rules merely because the situation gets confused or passions are aroused." And he said he could not promise that police would never again be used on campus, because this "would only serve to escalate every incident into a crisis. Freedom presupposes order, and order presupposes rules and the ability to enforce them...