Word: patternings
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...Ozick is careful never to allow the prose-poetry pattern to weaken the fabric of the novel. A device that might have seemed sloppy or contrived in the hands of a less skilled novelist, this language effectively heightens the sensual flavor of Ozick's work...
Sadly, Harvard's current policies do more to encourage that break this pattern. By refusing to release information about specific cases or establish a clear and public scale of penalties, the University tacitly discourages harassment victims from bringing their complaints forward by letting them think their situation is not only rare but somehow shameful, to be kept quiet. And by suppressing the names of professors found guilty of harassment and the punishments meted out to them. Harvard undermines its official contentions that sexual harassment is a serious issue, making deterrence minimal...
...stories proclaim the dramatic, the striking, the unprecedented. Creative acts usually build subtly on what has gone before toward something perhaps yet to be imagined. They trace a curve of achievement, not a jagged series of breathtaking strokes. One week is hardly long enough to sense and report a pattern that may take decades to emerge. Sixty years ago, for example, William Faulkner was loitering about his home town of Oxford, Miss., being called "Count-no-count" by derisive neighbors for his aloof artiness. During the late '20s and early '30s he produced a series of novels that...
Discussing the accord, theologians on the panel spoke of reaching a new tolerance for each other's views. H. George Anderson, co-chairman of the talks and president of lowa's Luther College, said that for Lutherans justification remains "the template, the pattern of how God and man relate. For Catholics, it is one doctrine among many." More basic, the Catholics on the panel assured the Lutherans that they believed that good works alone could not bring salvation, while the Lutherans declared that their emphasis upon faith and God's grace did not mean they rejected...
...They ran the same pattern a lot," Dixon recalled later. "I played about 12 yards back to make it look like a zone. It was a real easy catch. Nothing to do but run after that...