Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approach to literature and writing, for example, was extremely, rigid, clearly showing the influence of both feudal classicism and modern dogmatism. The analysis of literature followed an unchanging pattern from theme to precis, to style, and the writing assignments allowed almost no originality...
...some cultures, fat is considered beautiful and desirable. If I fit that pattern better than the dominant more of thin beauty in my culture, then I should simply accept my misplaced role...
Even before Early Bird reached its final station, it went to work. American Telephone & Telegraph's great horn antenna at Andover, Me., which is now leased by Comsat, sent a television test pattern up to the satellite. Back the pattern came to Andover, its quality so good that Siegfried H. Reiger, Comsat's technical vice president, proudly told a press conference: "The television capability of the Early Bird satellite is established...
...Houston Astros (formerly the Colt .45s), played their first day game under the steel and plastic dome, against their own Oklahoma City farm hands. As a precautionary measure, outfielders wore batting helmets in the field. They needed them. Unable to follow the flight of the ball against the jigsaw pattern of the roof, the players staggered about like asphyxiated cockroaches as fly ball after fly ball dropped at their feet. When they quit after seven innings, the Astros were ahead 10-3- and six of the runs had been scored on lost fly balls. "It's impossible to play...
...like Johnson, Harry Smith isn't magical. He doesn't jump cues the way Johnson does, but he tries too hard to please. Too many of his speeches conclude with a flourish and a raised eyebrow, as if to say, "applause, please." He seemed to be following some prearranged pattern of smiles and announcements, not riding his whim...