Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply messengers in time, bearers of immutable facts: "For better or worse [they] inescapably leave an imprint as they go about their business: asking interesting questions about apparently dull facts, seeing connections between subjects that had not seemed related before, shifting and rearranging evidence until it assumes a coherent pattern. The past is not history; only the raw material...
Turning to another pattern, cubism brings together the American fascinations with the trivia and the inventive Cleverly designed, the cube appeals to a nation that is home to electric can openers, touch-tone phones, and canned hot shaving cream. Americans love garish toys tinged with plastic high tech and the ubiquitous "New, Improved!" label--skateboards with polyurethane wheels, very square exotica from a Hungarian mathematician...
...welcome the inventive. Both phenomena mirror our self-image as we like it best--well-groomed and creative. Like the beggar watching someone else speed by in a limousine, the clever device prompts an "I could have done that" response. If creativity is the human ability to see pattern in chaos, the cube restores our flagging hope in our own imagination as it distracts us from an untidy world...
...person is unmistakable" David Karen a sociology graduate student, said in an interview yesterday. The study, published in the Chicago weekly newspaper in These Times, found that the NBA racial pattern "is to showed" that it "would be very difficult to explain if racial factors were not operative in at least some cities," according to co-author Jerome B. Karabel, an associate of the Sociology Department...
Karabel and Karen did not conduct interviews with NBA or team officials, relying strictly on a statistical analysis of the racial men of teams and the general population. Yet the pair are confident that the pattern they observed cannot be explained by coincidence. "As observers we went in expecting to find a pattern, but we were quite surprises at finding out how strong the pattern was," Karen said...