Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Institute for Independent Study was established in November 1960 to offer a complement to orthodox higher education through various programs tailored to suit the variegated pattern of women's lives...
...traditional pattern of course work--postponing the student's contribution to his learning until the term is nearly ended--implicitly denies what all students know from their experience: education functions best as a dialogue, a running conversation between student and teacher in which both are actively engaged in the same material at the same time. Education fails and apathy sets in when this dialogue breaks down. Why copy down the lecturer's critical responses to "The Wasteland" before you have read the poem, before you have your own responses to measure his against? And of what satisfaction to the teacher...
Cross-examining, Sontag repeated the pattern of questions he used on the defense's first witness. He indicated scenes and topics in the book to which the Attorney General objects and Schorer agreed that they were indeed present. He felt, though, that they were a necessary and integral part of Miller's style...
...night visitor to the Leverett Courtyard is no longer blinded by 150 watt spotlights burning into the yellow curtains. No longer does he see the insipid bright and-dark checkerboard of old; the visitor of today is greeted by a varied pattern of bright, dark, and dim. If this pleases the visitor, he may be startled by the sight of peering, bleary-eyed Leverett Men emerging from the Towers...
...programs, the new Radcliffe Institute, our provisions for independent and foreign study, our occassional acceptance of transfer students, and our sanctioning of undergraduate leaves of absence are among significant exceptions: they signify by the exceptional character we have given them our unconcious commitment, by and large, to an inflexible pattern which since the gates were errected around the Yard has not significantly changed...