Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transit workers emerged with more than they probably deserved, more than they have ever gotten before, and as the only group in the city not seriously hurt by the strike. Perhaps even more serious, the Mayor, by demonstrating how successful a strike can be, may have set a new pattern of relations with the TWU which will make a biennial strike a foregone conclusion. Unless the new Mayor learns how to make those nasty political deals pretty damn quick the City Council should get together and throw the bum out. Louis D. Beer...
...standard television waves, which penetrate into space but tend to be drowned out by cosmic radiation of about the same frequency, UHF broadcasts could eventually be detected as far off as 200 light years from earth. Each UHF station, says Oliver, sends out its signal in a thin, disklike pattern tangent to the earth. As the earth rotates, that disk sweeps the universe like a giant beacon, eventually carrying its UHF transmission past stars and planets many light years away...
...instrument could advance the infant art of radio astronomy to a rewarding maturity that might produce more scientific discoveries than the $40 billion program to put a man on the moon. And if while using their powerful instrument radio astronomers pick up a hint of an intelligent pattern in UHF signals from space, Oliver says, "an age-old question will have been answered. We will know that we are not alone...
Though the author imposes no patterns, a pattern emerges. The patrician and idle society of the past was in its last days. The industrial revolution had produced new men, with new ideas that were sometimes wildly impractical, often idealistic, but always intent on making themselves felt. Her book amounts to a close-up view of the clash between them...
...arachnid. In The Collector, his brilliant first novel, the central character is a spidery psychopath who ensnares a pretty girl and plays with her as a child plays with a doll, not consciously meaning any harm, until the poor thing falls apart. In his second novel, Fowles repeats his pattern but not his success...