Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helpless and nasty into a world we never made, and we can only do what we were destined to do. Golding's earnestness in portraying this feral landscape is obvious on every page of his books. But the highest art is achieved through surprise, the intimation of a pattern established and then inspiringly broken, the fusion of particulars creating a light in which the familiar looks prophetic. Against such possibilities, Golding must be judged on his accomplishments and pronounced a master of textbook despair...
Workers installed a 25-ft. brick sculpture designed by the late Anne Norton in front of the Wordsworth bookstore. The work, in an abstract modern style, depicts a "gateway pattern," according to Palles Lombardi, director of Cambridge Arts on the Line...
...Ozick is careful never to allow the prose-poetry pattern to weaken the fabric of the novel. A device that might have seemed sloppy or contrived in the hands of a less skilled novelist, this language effectively heightens the sensual flavor of Ozick's work...
Sadly, Harvard's current policies do more to encourage that break this pattern. By refusing to release information about specific cases or establish a clear and public scale of penalties, the University tacitly discourages harassment victims from bringing their complaints forward by letting them think their situation is not only rare but somehow shameful, to be kept quiet. And by suppressing the names of professors found guilty of harassment and the punishments meted out to them. Harvard undermines its official contentions that sexual harassment is a serious issue, making deterrence minimal...
...stories proclaim the dramatic, the striking, the unprecedented. Creative acts usually build subtly on what has gone before toward something perhaps yet to be imagined. They trace a curve of achievement, not a jagged series of breathtaking strokes. One week is hardly long enough to sense and report a pattern that may take decades to emerge. Sixty years ago, for example, William Faulkner was loitering about his home town of Oxford, Miss., being called "Count-no-count" by derisive neighbors for his aloof artiness. During the late '20s and early '30s he produced a series of novels that...