Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...implemented, the new plan would swing delegates' attention from constructive action to the petty intrigue of national rivalry. For, while an individual can make the concessions necessary to reach agreement on issues, the same grants would mean loss of face to a national representative. Although spokesmen for Moscow now pattern their views on the narrow interests of their particular countries, this minority of bound votes is too small to effect the group's supranational outlook. In seeking to bind all of the delegates to national interests, the United States may be stifling one of the UN's most effective commissions...
...growth in all things touching the College, feels that the problem will eventually solve itself when, under increasing pressure, the College will have to raise the money for new buildings and increase its enrollment. In this as in other respects, he wants Brown to develop naturally in its own pattern--not in emulation of or in competition with other Ivy Colleges...
...similar in all but administrative setup to that of the Radcliffe student in Cambridge. They attend classes with Brown students on the Brown campus and have the same faculty. Their exact relationship to the College is difficult to describe; like so many other things at Brown, it is without pattern or precedent. It just grew...
Dave Brubeck thinks that it reflects the American scene, and that may be true. It is tremendously complex, but free. It flows along, improvising constantly, and yet it is held together by a firm pattern. It sometimes recalls a machine that always sounds as if it were going to fly apart, but it never quite does. As always in jazz, its essence is the tension between improvisation and order-between freedom and discipline...
Better Head Lamp. After four years of joint research, a group of auto headlamp manufacturers has produced a brighter, sealed-beam lamp, with redesigned lens and hooded filament that throw the beam more to the right side of the road and screen out stray lights above the beam pattern. The new sealed-beam unit fits current models. Price: about...