Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developed personally a practice of getting along and seeing eye to eye on a number of our local problems in Berlin. And so far as I was concerned-and I believe he was honest about it-we were trying to set up a pattern, if we could, in Berlin, in our little local place there, to show that even two nations could get along if they would both recognize the folly of not getting along. Now, what this means today, I don't know. The last time I had a direct letter from him was April 1946, and that...
Mustached Julius Holmes, 55, has had a career as varied as the intricate pattern of a Persian rug. A Kansan* who entered the Foreign Service in 1925, he served at four Mediterranean and Balkan posts before returning to Washington as assistant chief of protocol. In 1937 Protocol Expert Holmes resigned to become vice president of the New York World's Fair and, in effect, Grover Whalen's secretary of state...
Since the war, the C.I.O. has cleaned out its Communists. The A.F.L. has moved further and further from its old restrictionist craft-union pattern. (Lewis and his miners had long since departed.) Politically, the two groups had little to argue about. The A.F.L. had abandoned its old political independence, and the C.I.O. had stopped its flirtation with the idea of a labor party. Both A.F.L. and C.I.O. had become adjuncts of the Democratic Party, although many members-perhaps 33% of those who voted-went Republican...
...Need for Symbols. In this process, symbols help. One which particularly fascinates Jung is the mandala,** a square and-wheel pattern embodying the number four or a multiple of it. A precious stone, often equated with the philosopher's stone of the alchemists, can symbolize the Self. The interlaced, banyanlike Tree of Life is often seen to bear a single luminous blossom-perhaps the Orient's Golden Flower, or a Christmas-tree star-which signifies the way of life that is life itself...
...manages to maintain a bit of suspense about the Wales-Greene mystery, though most of it gets lost in such a welter of flashbacks that even Cinema-Scope will have trouble straightening things out. The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand's book: Frank Norris' Mc-Teague, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Thomas Wolfe...