Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawings, and he had written all over them, destroying every one: 'You are a Bohemian and this will be the cause of your dying of hunger.' " So Julio stuffed a few clothes into a suitcase, left the house for good, and, true to the romantic pattern of art biographies, became a successful painter. His brother inherited the business, gambled it away, and killed himself...
...this rate, the 38-year-old grandmother will soon be a commonplace. Our pattern of age at marriage and parenthood is now close to that which prevailed in the early years of the nation's history...
...help or hinder the development of man into what he--in Riesman's view--ought to be? Thus he feels that American culture generally involves thinking in terms of sequences or categories which are boxed off from one another. For Riesman, the question is not one of accepting this pattern as given and of working within it, but one of deciding whether or not it is valuable. Riesman regards examinations and grading as manifestations of this pattern. A examination sharply marks the end of one course and the beginning of the next; a grade is a way of producing "packaged...
...earlier study created General Education at Harvard and set a pattern for similar plans across the country. Recommendations of the Bruner report, formally known as the Report of the Committee on Science in General Education, for the most part reinforced the redbook. A unanimous vote passed these proposals. with almost no changes at a Faculty meeting a month after the report came...
...maintain a position of detachment. Increasingly there is no place for intelligent apathy, the standard defense of the undergraduate trying to discover for herself what really matters to her, as a student and as an individual. Whether she wills it or not, she has become part of a pattern she did not choose, the subject in an experiment she may not wholly approve...