Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Service, namely, the protection of American citizens and their interests, the promotion of American trade, and lastly, the preservation and invigoration of peace. If these subjects interest you, if these ideals inspire you, and if you would care to devote yourself to a life in a variegated and colorful pattern in the pursuit of them, you will find the Foreign Service a career of rich rewards if, on the other hand, you are hoping to accumulate a fortune or to grow old in one scene with one set of friends, you will not find happiness in this career its greatest...
...this may be true. A pattern in lieu of an individual may conceivably be the product of House units. And if faculties are such fools as the writer believes they may carelessly allow a hot-head or two to wiggle into their midst. In one of his minor digressions, Mr. Hale attacks Professor Babbitt of Harvard. From the tenor of the article, one might expect Professor Babbitt to be the epitome of the author's desires. Not a hot-head to be sure, but the humanist has on occasion provoked intelligent and original thinking; even his undergraduate opponents, and they...
...presidential campaign fund and thereafter, upon his candidate's election to the White House, is rewarded with an Ambassadorship, nobody seriously accuses him of having bribed the President of the U. S. to obtain a good fat job. But because he shuffled this standardized political procedure into an illegitimate pattern an ex-Congressman of Indiana last week stood convicted in Federal court of bribery and job-selling. His conviction loomed as a general warning to all other Congressmen to play the patronage game according to the rules...
...long dis carded the skirling imagery of Petrushka and The Firebird. When he wrote Oedipus he was deep in a desire to return to the classicists, anxious perhaps to begin all over again, to see where a new trail would take him. He chose an old, formal pattern fundamentally similar to the Handel oratorios...
...part of Stokowski's genius is expressed in his willingness to walk where angels fear to tread. It is nothing new for him to appear to know more about a piece of music than the man who wrote it. Much of Stravinsky's Oedipus, despite its rigid pattern, is powerful dramatic music, worthy of translation. So, for Philadelphians, last week Stokowski proceeded to translate it, using modernistic idioms: The speaker (Negro Wayland Rudd; recalled the story in English through a loud speaker attached to the proscenium arch. On a platform above the singers, puppets 15 feet tall represented the Greek...