Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general health, past illnesses, work and leisure activities, even sexual habits. Orthopedic Surgeon J. William Fielding of New York City's St. Luke's Hospital says that he can usually pinpoint the patient's problem from this ritual alone. He also points out that the pattern of pain is itself a diagnostic tool. Reason: the nerve pathways branching off different areas of the spinal cord have been so well mapped that any pain along them can be used to point back to the spinal injury...
HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England--South Africa has, of late, caused Harvard great problems. That pattern continued over the weekend, when a South African crew nosed out the University lightweight shell in the semifinals of the Ladies Challenge Cup event here...
...danger of these richly diverse but fragmented approaches to American history is that they degenerate into in coherence; historians thus are reproducing, with an eerie precision, the pattern of their own society. Just as the U.S. has grown balkanized, turned into a landscape of single-interest constituencies and conflicting tribes, so historians now seem to offer a scattered vision of America, full of fascinating minutiae and human detail, but lacking leadership, direction, plan or vision. "Surely," says Carl Degler, "the American people are more than a collection of diverse nationalities, classes and genders living between Canada and Mexico...
...realistically show them the violent underside of their huge and diverse nation, and thus they fell headlong into an apocalyptic absolutism that is common among Americans. If they are not the best in the world, then they imagine that surely they must be the worst. The psychological pattern still applies...
...pattern emerges through the book's jumbled chronology. China Men go out in the world either to earn the right to come home to their women or to establish a new place suitable for them. One of Kingston's grandfathers fetches up in the 1860s in the Sierra Nevada, seeking work with the Central Pacific Railroad. He is hired on the spot, Kingston notes acidly, because "chinamen had a natural talent for explosions." Years of backbreaking, dangerous work follow, the continent is finally linked by rail, and then the grandfather and his fellow Chinese find they...