Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broke it. "Let's see," she said, "on that hand he held up one finger; his hand showed only one heart. Maybe this holds true for other hands." Checking the records of past hands against notes that they had made during the observations, the trio found the pattern. One finger meant a singleton heart. Two fingers together meant two hearts; two spread in a V shape meant five. Three fingers clenched meant three hearts; three fingers spread apart indicated six. Four fingers together meant four. A holding of seven hearts or more could be indicated simply in the bidding...
...early 1930s to form small academic and social communities within the increasingly impersonal hustle of the modern university. At both universities the college system, its evolution slowed by World War II and the aftermath, is still in flux, and each new master has an opportunity to shape its eventual pattern. Counselor and friend, social leader and intellectual mentor, the master presides over the college's 300 to 400 students from his house in the quadrangle. His personality becomes the college's, and realizes or denies the original ideal...
Porter, who will retire as master of Pierson when Hersey takes over in July. Brewster admitted that it was "seemingly" a departure from Yale tradition, yet denied any conscious effort to break the pattern: "I was just looking for the man who could do the best...
...with its rejection of a priori moral authority is likely to have an opposing urge to commit himself entirely to authority. That is a commonplace in psychology, but it is often forgotten by those who notice the intellectual inconsistency between the two positions. Sartre easily fits the existentialist-Marxist pattern of deep ambivalence to authority, if the childhood he describes in The Words is any indication. But before he became a Marxist he had already expressed, in his novels, plays, and essays, an important existentialist philosophy. When he became disillusioned with Western capitalist society, instead of abandonning existentialism he tried...
Cars coming up Kirkland St. would be diverted into Quincy St. This traffic pattern and the closing of the portion of Kirkland St. were first suggested several years ago in a University-financed traffic report of the Harvard Square area. Last fall Robert E. Rudolph, Cambridge Traffic Director, formally endorsed the suggestions...