Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Purges this months of both the first secretary of the party, and the head of propaganda have broken down an important pattern of Chinese leadership: for three decades, there has been a remarkable solidarity and continuity in high places...
...when he addresses the Roman plebs at Caesar's funeral in the Forum. Here he lacks sincerity and sonority. The crowd, however, handles itself rather effectively in this scene, emitting a susurrus of suspense before Brutus' harangue, and erupting into noisy iterations of a metrically unison spondee-anapest pattern before Mark Antony...
...eerie lighting makes it quite unnecessary to add the off-stage roll on the cymbal. And must we have another crude cymbal roll when Brutus runs on his sword? As a background to the aura of death at Philippi, Susa has also introduced on the harp an ostinato pattern from the Dies irae plainchant, which recalls the identical ostinato near the end of Rachmaninoff's tone-poem Isle of the Dead. At any rate, I suspect that even Sousa would have done better than Susa
This week's story, written by Robert Jones and edited by Edward Hughes, focuses on le grand Charles's trip to the Soviet Union, but reaches well beyond for a much wider scope. In TIME'S pattern and practice, it is what the French call a tour d'horizon. At a time when the policies and programs of nations East and West are undergoing great if often subtle change, it studies the meaning and thrust of these new forces and explores the Gaullist question of whether an era is approaching that may see all Europe...
Ball's conclusion: "Such a Europe [as De Gaulle envisions]-a continent of shifting coalitions and changing alliances-is not the hope of the future; it is a nostalgic evocation. It would not mean progress but a reversion to the tragic and discredited pattern of the past-a return to 1914, as though that were good enough, and with the same guarantee of instability-yet made more dangerous, not less, by the ideological drive of the Soviet Union and the existence of nuclear weapons...