Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offer. By spurning it, he would have been betraying the men the U.S. landed in Cuba, and giving Castro still another opportunity to remind Latin Americans of a fact that already know--that the burden of blame for Cuba today rests on the shoulders of the United States. Our pattern of denial must...
...dozen blocks east of Harvard is Washington Elms, one of the pioneer Federal housing projects. Today this orderly pattern of three-story buildings is the focus of a community that might have been the model for Emile Durkheim's frightening concept of anomie...
...must not compromise on is the dining hall. There is, of course, near-universal dissatisfaction with the present hurried and uncivilized eating arrangements at Radcliffe. Leisurely meals attended by both faculty members and students are the heart of the Harvard House system, and unless Radcliffe adopts a substantially similar pattern, its Houses may well fail as communities. The dining hall will become especially important at Radcliffe, because all of its Houses are to consist of several separate buildings. The only thing binding each community will be its common eating facilities...
Imitation of the regionalist pattern has already begun. Economically, regionalism has proceeded farthest in Europe. The European Common Market has completed its third stage of tariff reductions, accepted Greece as an associate member, and indicated a willingness to come to terms with Britain, the leader of the European Free Trade Area. European dreams of an integrated economy and independence in the Cold War may not be far from fulfillment...
...suggest that regionalism will culminate in a universal merger movement would be premature. The world is far from the Orwellian prediction of a globe divided into three continental states. But surely the unconscious emulation of the super-state pattern perceivable in regionalist unions will have more influence on world history than boiling soap had on the life of Mark Twain...