Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...division of missions among the Army, Navy and Air Force was a matter of Biblical simplicity: the Army's domain was the land, the Navy's the sea, the Air Force's the air. Missiles upset this neat and workable pattern. To Army eyes, missiles are essentially artillery. The Air Force considers them unmanned planes. Navymen see them as modifications of carrier planes and battleship guns. Fearing loss of missions, prestige and even existence, the three services have scrambled fiercely for shares of the missile field. Result: three missile programs that duplicate and even triplicate each other...
...away. The Sharkey-Brown-Isaacs bill now in the New York Legislature would seek to enforce stringently nondiscriminatory policies in private housing. This is being fought by people who fear that an influx of non-whites will decrease property values. Unofficial covenants between property owners have long kept a pattern of tenants satisfactory to those in the better neighborhoods. When these covenants break down, trouble and violence--such as the recent riots in Levittown, Pa.--result. New York is in for a long struggle in its effort to reach the ideal it preaches to the South...
...nation of Taoists, Buddhists and Christians against surrounding Communism. To Vietnamese officials, Buddhism and Taoism seemed too vague and personal to combat Marxism, and the Western ethos was still too alien. The teachings of Confucius (551-479 B.C.) looked like the answer. With its adoration of knowledge, its rigid pattern of family life, its elaborate ritual for such everyday acts as pouring tea and laying place-mats, Confucianism still has strong practical appeal in chaotic Asia. And because it is not a religion but a philosophy-it does not deal with theology or speculation-it can be followed without conflict...
...stage seems just a bit old and tired. American musical comedy turned into a ritual celebration of romantic love a good many years ago, and it takes much imagination and effort to break out of a mold which has been a success as often as this one. The pattern of musical comedies is nearly always the same. After a fast opening chorus, the romantic male lead meets and wins the romantic female lead, all to the tune of a ballad. Then comes the comic subplot, generally introduced by means of a specialty number. After that, the plot takes over...
...product of lesser talents, look more tired and warmed-over than anything else. On the positive side of the ledger, Leonard Bernstein, with West Side Story, is exploring the musical theater as a vehicle for something like tragedy. And it may be indicative of some change in the pattern of the American musical that the most hailed show now in New York, My Fair Lady, owes much to the British genius, Bernard Shaw; and that The Three Penny Opera has enjoyed a two-year run even though it is a daring experiment which was written thirty years ago in Germany...