Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take, for instance, Frederick English's story called "Tied With Trembling." It contains a vast number of sensory images and descriptions, some of them good, and most of them undistinguished. Evidently these are meant to produce a mosaic pattern on the reader's mind, a blurred after-image. My mosaic turns out to be about a girl who goes through one or more traumatic experiences, grows up, and returns to her childhood home in the country. The story, however, is too fragmentary for more than a superficial understanding, and that, it would seem to me, is a distinct drawback...
...puss?" In Vancouver, the News-Herald took a straw poll, reported two-to-one sentiment against dropping the bomb now. In Quebec, newspapers condemned the bomb as immoral, but the province's outright pacifism of World War II seemed to be gone. If there was a pattern at all, the Canadian tendency was to seek a scapegoat; more often than not it turned out to be U.S. leadership. Many newspapers across the nation splashed the news that Prime Minister Attlee was flying to Washington almost as though the editors were turning to the old country for cautious guidance that...
...their dull, predictable company was provided by a few comparatively young and little-known painters with a sense of self. Honolulu's Ben Norris translated mountains into a jagged, energetic shorthand that almost soared. Boston's Lawrence Kupferman reduced a tide-pool to a rich swirling pattern that looked like yellow marble...
Enthusiasm, Knox thinks, only came into its full flower a century after Luther "shook up the whole pattern of European theology." The Quakers were the first of this flowering, and Knox "cannot resist the impression" that there is a direct line of influence upon them from the Anabaptist movement that ended in a bloody civil uprising at Münster 18 years after Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. Early Quaker simplicity strikes Knox as "almost . . . boorishness," and he takes fastidious note of Founder George Fox's "barbarous" style of writing. But he nonetheless pictures Fox as a potent...
...scherzo there were a few false starts, and each time Munch followed the same pattern: a pause, a violent gesture, and a grunt--then the theme...