Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...section and coffee house; but the iron anatomy remains which no mode of production can bend. Even those who would have preferred a less liturgical and more "human" enactment of the tragedy, therefore, will leave the theatre convinced again that Aristotle could not have picked a better paradigm of elemental power and dramatic impact than Oedipus...
...Nymph in the Spark Plug" is concerned not merely with the "literary standards" of a literary mode but with its movement in intellectual history. The interest is in observation rather than in literary pomp. Audience's casual observations, however, can carry it astray. Donald Van Eman sets up a paradigm only so as to have an excuse for commenting on several Westerns; he wanders all over the lot and then attempts to pull a point...
...Piglet Paradigm. Competition in the world of the young is not all-out; in this, it imitates the adult world of business and politics in which they will move. Modern business competition turns around "marginal differentiation," i.e., competing products imitate each other, yet call attention to small differences. Increasingly, businesses group themselves in trade associations and businessmen look to their competitors, rather than to their own accounting department, for the signals that mean success. Their attitude toward their own work is not that of producers, but of consumers. Morale is bucked up when a business decision meets the approval...
...rhyme may be taken as a paradigm of individuation and unsocialized behavior among children of an earlier era. Today, however, all little pigs go to market; none stay home; all have roast beef...
...letter bore the date of Dec. 1, nearly four weeks after mine was sent. I thanked him for his kind directive to an old reporter and told him that I had consulted Merriam-Webster before writing him. Among other references I quoted Webster, under WORLD, with the paradigm, "All the world loves a lover," and not "love a lover." I gave him Century, and collective nouns, with "herd" as an example, and of course, Gray, "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea." Not "wind." I followed with Bartlett's quotations, with 52 instances of "world" followed...