Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Union and company negotiators agree that without the guideposts the settlement would have been bigger. The President was particularly eager to hold the line on the oilworkers agreement because, as the first settlement under the guideposts, it may also set a pattern for this year's heavy calendar of labor talks. The Teamsters, whose contract expires March 31, will provide the next big test. Though they are expected to put up a tougher fight than the OCAW, the oil settlement is bound to have some restraining influence...
...addition, a few pictures of empty swimming pools and nudes, and two photographs from Meyerowitz's current project, commissioned by the St. Louis Art Museum: one picture of a St. Louis cityscape, another of a baseball diamond. All these are photographed with something of the canny eye for pattern and electric combinations of color that guided Degas and Matisse...
...clear that the pattern which has developed concerning student influence on administration decisions and policy has been one of frustration. At least, in the cases of the CRR and now the ACSR, students are resisting co-optation by boycott. But as I said before, the committee system is not the only problem. We lack experience, ideas and inspiration--more than this, we lack any sense of unity...
...more architecture without architects." To travel in American cities is to know what he meant; the townscape of the '70s is perfused with cost-accountant buildings that bear no trace of human imagination: three-dimensional graphs of optimum efficiency, seemingly designed by computers for insects. In the whole pattern of American building, real architecture is a minority's activity...
...order to break the existing pattern of dependence and put an end to the erosion of competence, citizens will have to take the solution of their problems into their own hands. They will have to create their own 'communities of competence.' Only then will the productive capacities of modern capitalism, together with the scientific knowledge that now serves it, come to serve the interests of humanity instead. In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal 'growth' and 'awareness'-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope...