Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miami, Mrs. Mary Louise Patterson, 38, mother of six, was being sentenced in a misdemeanor assault case. She explained that at 315 Ibs. she was too fat to work. The judge put her on probation for three years on condition that she lose 3 Ibs. a week under a supervised diet until she had dropped 65 Ibs. If she falls off the diet, she could go to jail. Mrs. Patterson accepted her sentence happily, saying, "Oh good. Now I'll finally lose weight...
...they also include the mine worker, the land developer, the labor leader and the successful young mod designer. Actually, the average Australian is not now-and never was-the remote man of the outback, "the son of field and flock ...from bold and roving stock," as Poet "Banjo" Patterson described the pioneer. He is a suburbanite, and his country is one of the most urbanized nations on earth. Australians like to tell a newcomer that if he will go first to the top of Sydney's tallest building and then to the top of Melbourne's tallest building...
...HJAA also includes three other articles and a brief poetry section. The poetry in the Journal is another example of how it hopes to play the roles of both an international forum and a workshop for young local writers. Including samples of the work of Caribbean writer Orlando Patterson, whose "Trinidad" and "Sour Roses" open the section, and "Keep the Faith" and "Melting Slush" by Emory West '72, the poetry section is a well-selected representation of the current directions of black verse...
Duty and Reverence. Hampshire is run by President Franklin Patterson, 54, a softspoken, firm-willed former director of Tufts University's Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs. Appointed four years before the first students arrived, Patterson had ample time to cull 50 faculty members from nearly 1,000 applicants and decide how to spend a $6,000,000 start-up gift from Harold F. Johnson, a publicity-shy New York lawyer and Amherst alumnus...
...Patterson expects Hampshire's "hospitality to contemporary life" to be tempered by two "ageless virtues: duty and reverence." The college catalogue warns that academic life must be "hierarchical." Students are not allowed to abolish Hampshire's year-end exams, have no power over faculty appointments, do not sit on the board of trustees. A major continuing problem is money. Hampshire is still scrambling for $22.5 million to teach and house the new classes that will enter each year until enrollment reaches 1,500. With the cost of a year at Hampshire due to hit $4,300 next fall...