Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Summer of '42, on which it is cut to pattern, Our Time is made with a combination of calculated modesty and poignance. There is even the same sort of bubble-bath musical score by Michel Legrand to orchestrate the conveniently unhappy ending. The destiny to which Muffy's bad luck leads her is surprising, not because it has been engineered with any tact but because it seems so arbitrary and imposed. Like the climaxes of most melancholy romances, it is never real enough to matter...
...merely want to change the circulation pattern so that grass will grow," she said...
Cutting back on the number of creative writing courses offered by any department seems to me to be a tragic mistake. Even worse, it strikes me as belonging to the general pattern of sacrificing creativity for objectivity--and of restricting appealing options to a privileged few--that is standard operating procedure at Harvard...
...traditions and the anecdotes pile up on each other. Take the strange case of Holmes House, which stood near the intersection of Cambridge St. and Mass Ave. In that one building, Benedict Arnold received his commission, Oliver Wendel Holmes was born, and the poem "Old Ironsides" was written. Any pattern is elusive...
...seems that the same pattern of challenge and response will continue far into the future. Tenants are currently organizing to put pressure on the state legislature, which is on the verge of refusing to renew the enabling for control, which expires next April...