Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience. On first glance, it looks like a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces mixed. Incident follows incident, but their relationship to each other seems indiscernible and nothing which might be called a story forms. Yet in time, and with the prodding of Aaron's perceptive direction, a pattern does emerge...
...This pattern takes the shape of one of the most basic of all plot schemes--the triangle. Its members are three French prison inmates: one, Green Eyes, a condemned murderer; the second, Maurice, a young boy who is, apparently, a born criminal; and the third, Lefranc, a man who has only skirted the edges of the criminal world. Green Eyes dominates the triangle by virtue of the power which his crime confers on him. Each of the others tries to gain something of that power for himself by excluding the other from the murderer's regard...
This week the Chicago management-engineering firm of John A. Patton Inc. released a survey of 4,000 wives of the nation's top executives-the women who are supposed to set the pattern. The results offer some hard facts to challenge the proposition that executive wives must also marry the corporation. Sixty percent of the wives polled advised the young executive wife to remain aloof from corporate contacts, attend only necessary social functions, such as conventions; even the 40% who disagreed recommended only "a middle ground" of sociability. Said Mrs. Margaret Barry, wife of a vice president...
...grab 'em. Of course, we'd prefer that she not use a toothpick, but beyond that she's his problem, not ours." Most corporations hope for some social relationships among executives, but do not try to forge them by selecting wives to fit into a pattern. "I doubt very much," says Mrs. George Romney, wife of the president of American Motors, "if anything very important is ever accomplished at parties...
...professional, 48-year-old boyishness, succeeds almost continuously in suggesting what all the world sensed at the time: that Lindbergh's flight was not the mere physical adventure of a rash young "flying fool," but rather a journey of the spirit, in which, as in the pattern of all progress, one brave man proved himself for all mankind as the paraclete of a new possibility...