Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previous plays Harvard end Paul Barringer had been playing head-to-head with Brown split-end John Parry, trying to hit him at the line of scrimmage and keep him from com- pleting his pattern. Now Barringer ignored Parry and cruised in on Dunda from his spread position. No blocker touched him and he dumped the Brown passer eight yards in the end zone for a safety...
...first two questions assume that Harvard's system of frequent exams is superior to the more permissive European pattern. Without arguing pedagogy, it is clear that in both cases most of the learning derives from reading, and from associating with fellow students. We can hardly see a disadvantage in doing the reading in a foreign language and the associating with foreign students. We agree with a spokesman for History and Literature that "the difference between the two systems provides an educational challenge to the student who must resolve them...
...push me away," Evans recalls, adding wistfully: "But those machines were fascinating."57-Count 'Em. As the campaign continued, Evans wound up as a public personality, came off to advantage in a series of debates by articulating his moderate Republican stance. He frankly suggested that he would pattern his administration after the successful and vigorous record of G.O.P. Governor Mark Hatfield in neighboring Oregon. He issued a 35-point "Blueprint for Progress"that detailed fresh projects for mental health, for boosting lagging tourism and industry, and for streamlining the state government. He produced photostats purporting to show that state...
...light," said Bonnard, and he was an ingenious supplicant. In the checkerboard tiles that pattern his work, the color changes to harmonize with nearby colors. Nude flesh becomes a chameleon mirror for interior hues; a bathtub becomes an irregular cocoon for the human form. Bonnard's pictures are made of optical bewilderment and caprices of color...
...Waugh, English writer.' The entire small corps of officers, shaven and polished, turned out to greet me each bearing a bouquet." His childhood in Edwardian England he remembers as idyllic, "an even glow of pure happiness." His memories of boyhood are vividly visual, from his nursery wallpaper (a pattern of medieval figures) to the beauties of the countryside and villages, which were rapidly being destroyed by urbanization in "the grim cyclorama of spoliation which surrounded all English experience in this century." He remembers loving the old-fashioned lighting, he even claims he loved the antique plumbing...