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Having reduced nationhood—or at least its emblematic expression—to a set of shapes, Miller assigns a geometric pattern to each of the characters in Birth, and then allows Griffith’s Birth to pick up the fragments of splintered national identity. At the climax of Griffith’s myth, veterans of the Union and the Confederacy realize that they share the common bond of an “Aryan birthright”—and they defend this birthright from a mob of marauding Negroes...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—It followed the pattern precisely...
...Saturday afternoon, with a trip to the NCAA tournament on the line, the pattern was broken...
...home state of Tennessee is like a friend who, despite her many laudable qualities, has the tendency to embarrass the hell out of me by doing things that are totally inappropriate. For example, Tennessee has recently developed the nasty habit of voting Republican in presidential elections, a poor pattern of behavior that began with the slap in the face she delivered to her native son in 2000. Now another native son is organizing a campaign that, if successful, will force the good liberals of Tennessee to issue repeated apologies and live lives of general shame...
...defines binge drinking as “a risky pattern of alcohol use” in which men consume five or more drinks in a row and women consume four or more...