Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...habits. Morton had Dr. Michael Levison of Birkbeck College program the London computer to check the frequency and use of kai, a common Greek word meaning and, also, even, etc., in sentences drawn from nine classical writers-including Plato and Plutarch-found that each had a clear and distinct pattern in the way he handled his kais...
...Galatians (an attribution no scholar questions), fed every sentence in the Epistles to the computer for kai counting. Morton's conclusion: "There are four Epistles which were written by a man whose vocabulary had a constant proportion of kais in it, who used his kais in a consistent pattern and who, by definition, must be the Apostle Paul. The other ten Epistles exhibit diverse characteristics and must have come from at least three other hands...
N.C.A.T.E. argues that accreditation is the only way to ensure minimum standards in teacher training. The rub comes in the kind of standards being applied. Dean Stiles has leveled a drastic charge: N.C.A.T.E. seeks to impose on all U.S. schools of education a "monolithic and outdated" pattern that goes back to the "teachers' college...
...Britain, Macqueen Cybernetics Ltd. has developed a monster that can do practically everything for a knitted garment except pour the customer into it. It scans a design electronically, then out of its computer brain come punched tapes that control the pattern of the material and tell each needle when to knit or purl...
...frenzy. It works in eight colors and three dimensions, making the garment an exact fit for the figure for which it was designed. An elaborately tailored dress, ready for buttons and hemming, takes about 52 minutes. The tapes can be changed quickly to make a different size or pattern...