Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the typical pattern of a Harvard comeback effort that falls short and its flair for the unexpected that has framed the Harvard season The Game, in a broad sense, symbolized all that was frustrating about Harvard's 4-4-1 record, its unfulfilled dreams and unsatisfied hopes...
...ballet interludes in a 19th-century opera, dance merely embroiders diverting decorations. Dancers dance only when one would expect the characters to do so--Cinderella daydreaming with her broomstick, or the guests waltzing at the royal ball--and the content of the movement is a trite and anonymous classical pattern. Cunningham's choreographic vocabulary is limited, ignoring both the music (a beguiling Prokofiev score) and any place of space outside the lateral extension of center stage...
...gross national product. Most of the six U.S. recessions since World War II have started with high interest rates' causing a slowdown in housing. Then; came reduced consumer spending and cutbacks in business outlays for plant and equipment. Even if the prospective recession follows that traditional pattern, though, most economists now believe it will be comparatively mild and not a repetition of the severe downturn...
...book does not trace her career's development chronologically, but instead juxtaposes incidents by theme rather than by time sequence. While the early chapters describe childhood and adolescence in a fairly straightforward manner--"because my life followed a pattern then"--the later ones, describing her development as an actress, mix past and present, like a mind that jumps spontaneously from one thought to another. "Even if I were to sit down here and describe my career to you," she says, "I wouldn't be precise and orderly; I would go from event to event." Indeed, she attributes her love...
...really are and that there must be some kind of overall pattern for the world. I think when you get right down to it there's a closeness to God that farmers feel." But will Sons Mike, 19, and Gary, 18, share his beliefs? Says their mother Viola: "All I can tell you is what I hear them say: 'Mom and Dad don't get to go anywhere. The farm is their whole life...