Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-class Jamaicans. They believe the Rastas are threatening their dream of a unified Jamaica. The Rastas, on the other hand, refuse to participate in politics. They believe that the Jamaican elites must repay them for 400 years of slavery, and send them back to Ethiopia. Harvard's Orlando Patterson, professor of sociology, believes the Rastas can't make it in mainstream Jamaican society, so they isolate and console themselves with a religious illusion which makes them the victims of a corrupt system...
...Kathy R. Patterson Oxon Hill...
...Pulitzer judges, Eugene Patterson of the St. Petersburg Times, was worried about changing moral standards. Newspapers become censorious when Government agents misrepresent themselves, he noted, and are generally more sensitive to invasions of privacy. (Patterson conceded that he has at times authorized his own reporters to disguise themselves, and reserves the right to do so again.) As Patterson and his fellow judges groped their way through these ethical thickets, James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York Times was worried that they might be getting too moralistic. So he volunteered a distinction between pretense and deceit. Reporters often pretend to know...
...what troubles the newspaper editors came out clearly in a conference of journalists, lawyers and scientists assembled in mid-April by the Alicia Patterson Foundation to discuss the case. Several top scientists present agreed that the Progressive article could help such nations as Taiwan, South Africa, South Korea and Argentina to develop a bomb more quickly. No editor at the conference said he would have printed the article. Nor were editors impressed by Editor Erwin Knoll's stated motive to attack secrecy as unworkable and thus somehow to frustrate the nuclear arms race. Couldn't the point...
...Linda Patterson...