Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boom, the rise of the racketeer-all these are set forth in rapid, competent, factual narrative. Author Allen has "wondered whether some readers might not be interested and perhaps amused to find events and circumstances which they remember well-which seem to have happened only yesterday-woven into a pattern which at least masquerades as history." The Book-of-the-Month Club has answered his question by choosing Only Yesterday for their December book...
...Darwin said a minute "jump" in a favorable direction would survive in the species). It has developed outward from within the geneplasm (Lamarck thought the germ was affected from without by the activities of the body or the environment). Variation of species is the result of an original creative pattern which was within the germ from the beginning-Professor Henry Fairfield Osbom of the American Museum of Natural History...
...full play to his enthusiasm for the subject, interpreting here, illustrating there, and inculcating the relation of his particular field with the philosophical scheme of things. The student would be free to absorb all this and grasp the far-reaching implications of the subject as well as the logical pattern of its factual basis, as provided by the notes. Lectures could become a means of enjoyment and intellectual satisfaction, rather than a mere frantic wearing-out of pencils...
...plot is in the same pattern as Madame X and Madelon Claudet. Prom- ising an estranged husband (Geoffrey Kerr) to support a fortuitous rumor that she is dead. Miss Chatterton disappears into the Parisian demimonde. Years later she threatens to reveal that she is still alive and resentful when he refuses to let their grown-up daughter marry. Cinemas in which the climax arrives only with the maturity of the heroine's offspring are likely to be long drawn out. This one, though Ruth Chatterton acts well and ably affects a Russian accent, seems as long as two ordinary cinemas...
...sense. For meaning comes from understood relationships, and the specialist often ignores the relation of the basic principles of his subject to those of another field. He fails, accordingly, to comprehend the larger meaning of his work; he misses the essential point of fitting his facts into a complete pattern, of seeing their effect on life...