Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schwable: In attaining this false confession from me, I believe the Chinese Communists followed a definite preplanned pattern to break me down and condition me for this farce . . . The steps consisted of degrading and humiliating me, exhausting me physically and mentally, conditioning me to creative or false writing, intimidating and threatening me, and finally trying to contaminate my mind with wild slanders against my country, giving me false hopes or promises, and trying to instill in me a sense of war guilt that could be eradicated only by confessing...
Simple Stitcher. The Vigorelli "Robot," a sewing machine that can change its pattern of stitch without stopping or slowing down, was shown off in Manhattan. Hailed as "the world's first completely automatic home sewing machine." the machine also has a knob for selecting any of ten different types of embroidery stitch. Price...
...splashed shot of a little girl. Its lighting is reminiscent of the impressionistic paintings of Renoir et al., and its atmosphere is that of a powder puff. Aaron Siskind's closeup of peeling paint is not supposed to look like paint alone; it is a faintly sinister pattern reminiscent of easel pictures by the German surrealist Max Ernst. Arnold Newman's portrait of Igor Stravinsky is heavily symbolic: its main feature is not Stravinsky, but a piano top photographed to resemble a looming note of music...
...would ultimately be paid by the U.S. taxpayer since all of North American's business is with the Government. Meanwhile, other aircraft makers, already negotiating new contracts, kept a sharp eye on North American. There was little doubt that a wage settlement at North American would set a pattern for the industry...
Jones traces clearly the successive steps taken by Freud from this simple beginning to the full-dress appearance of psychoanalysis in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). He tells vividly of Freud's decision to psychoanalyze himself-the results of which have been the basic pattern of analytical treatment ever since. As this first volume ends, he leaves Freud at the turn of the new century, his theory half-complete but already an object of horror to all respectable neurologists...