Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This pattern may spread, may well be the shape of domestic service in an industrial democracy. And so, alas, exeunt Jeeves, Passepartout and Pseudolus, to become IBM cards in the files of an impersonal Mary Poppins, Inc. No "existentialist bond" perhaps, no love lost, no mutual dependence. But at least-and at best-a new, professional sense of service and a more civilized life...
...used to carry several of these littler books with him, jotting down impressions from time to time. As was his wont for most of his early diary-writing years (he kept a journal of some form or another until he left the Presidency), he followed no rigid pattern as to which books he wrote in. "He sometimes had three or four books going at once," according to Butterfield. "But he got a little formal about it when he went to Congress and became a public leader. Then he used storebought books. Before that, he used to make them himself...
Each year Sarmi makes two trips to Switzerland, France and Italy to select his fabrics. He has the lace re-embroidered with silver and gold, the chiffon treated to produce a raised velvet pattern, the dress wools interwoven with rows of iridescent paillettes. Often he designs his own: one year it was photographs of raindrops screened onto fine silk, another time it was magnified butterfly wings...
Despite a lifelong devotion to language, Funk had no use for stylistic precision. "Let's throw the old textbooks out the window," he once wrote, "along with the words correct and incorrect, because there's really no such thing as grammar, but only an ever-changing language pattern formed by everyday usage...
Such sharp. variations from city to city have become the national pattern in housing. The $26 billion industry which has been in an overall slump since mid-53, is undergoing what economists call "a rolling geographical readjust ment" - with major dips in some areas erasing gains in others. So far this year, housing starts across the U.S. are down 8% from a year ago despite gains in March and April. But in the West, where a quarter of the nation's new housing is normally concentrated, the decline is much sharper because of earlier overbuilding, cutbacks in defense industries...