Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strictly communist; territory is owned in common, and individual members of these groups have not found it necessary to assert their dominance to a marked degree. Indeed, compared to bird societies, where territory is held on an individual basis, primates have a much more subtle and flexible dominance pattern...
Although the 291 colleges studied followed this pattern in general, some diverged widely. For the 81 students at Harvard who took the CPI, attainment of high grades appeared related to lack of capacity for status, lack of social presence, and lack of self-acceptance...
...scholarship of the work is impeccable; the text is a carefully woven fabric of diplomatic cables, memoranda, personal memoirs and previous historical writings. Ullman's selected bibliography includes well over a hundred titles, not to mention manuscripts, papers and unpublished documents. The chapters follow a careful chronological pattern. The only difficulty with the book is that the reader occasionally loses the main thread of events amidst a welter of seemingly unconnected incidents. He feels as if he were viewing a kaleidoscope--at one moment he is reading about negotiations in Moscow and at the next about Czech troops in Chelyabinsk...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. In a play of nocturnal mood and meaning, Williams assembles a defrocked minister, a spinster, a sensual spitfire and a nonagenarian poet on a Mexican hotel veranda, where their defeated dreams converge in an elegiac pattern of destiny...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. In a play of nocturnal mood and meaning, Williams assembles a defrocked minister, a Nantucket spinster, a sensual spitfire and a nonagenarian poet on a Mexican hotel veranda, where their defeated dreams converge in an elegiac pattern of destiny...