Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steals 3% columns from my TIME (5% of the current number). And for what good? To babble about eight trivial topics. Let me criticize them specifically. But first let me praise the pattern of each article. Your summarizing The Idea, The Motive and The Story is as compact an editing method as I can imagine. That is truly TIME'S selling point and success. Now criticisms...
Another profound fact Professor Compton discovered. Atoms are made up of a nucleus with a positive charge of electricity and one or more electrons with negative charges. The electrons (they are all the same size no matter what the element) revolve around their nucleus in a symmetrical pattern. Hydrogen, lightest of elements, has only one electron whirling around its nuclear "sun." Heavy metals, like lead, radium and uranium, have many electrons. In some elements some of the electrons pop away from their atoms. Such elements are radioactive. X-rays can make them pop away violently. When x-rays...
...Manhattan (at the Art Centre show) silk dress fabric taking as motifs jazz bands, Fifth Avenue crowds, ticker tape, rollercoasters, etc. In similar designs are printed linens and other fabrics for drawing-room hangings. Graphic art is represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners blowing saxophones or beating drums...
...Passage to India, and other less famed but meritorious novels, E. M. Forster gave a series of lectures at Cambridge. In these lectures, now published, he traces, weighs, values, explains in original fashion, the elements of the novel. These elements: "The Story," "The People," "The Plot," "Fantasy," "Prophecy," "Pattern and Rhythm," he exhibits in many examples. For "Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels as they watch magicians, longing for mystification, it will be merely a tedious expose...
...Norman Crowne as they animate his son and daughter. As these two are more tragic, they are more spectacular. Their bright uneven beauty sometimes begins to be a little unreal. But the construction of her theme, the way in which their mercurial doings are played against the less irregular pattern of the Frobishers outweighs and hides their unreality. The glow of "red sky at morning, shepherds' warning," pervades the pages of the book, rising to a sultry heat at noon, and sinking to the destined thunderstorm at the end of the short astonishing day. Never attaining the complete objectivity...