Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have only one school system in which all the children of America are educated according to the pattern set up by the people government, If that is to be our only pattern of education," he stated," we will in essence be following the pattern of all the totalitarian countries. We will be turning our backs on all that is best in American freedom, the right to be different--even the right to be working in your neighbor's opinion...
...Jolson Story ignited the sound formula of giving the audience old favorites sung by the still excellent voice of a star whose popularity has faded with time. With A Song In My Heart has great success in following this pattern. The show has only one large-scale production number. For most of the other songs, Miss Hayward is alone on the scene, lending her own brand of vivacious charm to Miss Froman's exciting voice...
...which God alone can relieve." 2) A spiritual or intellectual crisis, i.e., "the growing sense of dissatisfaction with their own ordinariness." 3) A physical crisis, such as illness or accident. Sometimes, adds Sheen, people who most vociferously hate the Church are the closest to conversion: "Hatred indicates interest." The pattern of instruction is always the same. Sheen starts with reason, firmly discouraging all mysticism or merely emotional belief. When people tell him they believe in God, he wants to know why, and won't let them off the hook till they can recite the logical proofs...
...plot thread is woven into an imaginative cinematic pattern of slapstick and social comment. The chemist's discovery alarms both capital & labor, which move to suppress it for fear the delicate balance of the market will be upset. Calm and sanity finally return to the textile industry when the inventor's white suit of miracle cloth falls apart, leaving him standing in the street in shirttails and drawers, a ludicrous and forlorn figure...
Four stages in the chemical pattern of convalescence are listed in the report: a few days of acute illness, and intermediate stage, a period when the patient begins to feel normal, and the final phase of "fat gain" until the body's nitrogen is again in balance...