Word: patterning
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...Maine. He made a clean sweep of the Midwest, the Mountain and Border States, the West Coast, appeared to have lost only Arizona in the Southwest. Only in the South did Barry Goldwater score a breakthrough, capturing Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. Remarkably, the pattern of Democrat Johnson's victory was strikingly similar to Republican Dwight Eisen- hower's in 1956-only with the party loyalties reversed...
...party. Despite the fact that the vast majority of all elected officials are Democrats, a condition that ought to give elections a dreary sameness, the state's politics are among the most confused and chaotic in the nation. This year's election is hardly likely to vary the pattern...
Carleton's president welcomes the greater rewards of cash and kudos that have accrued to the profession. "What disturbs me," he says, "is that with colleges, universities, government and industry all competing for the services of faculty, there has developed a pattern of relatively rapid turnover." As a result, Nason finds, "one's personal loyalty centers on one's profession, not on the college, which becomes a way station on the road to professional success. Faculty members are less inclined to identify themselves with their present institution. After all, it is only human nature and common sense...
Another optical effect often exploited by op is the moiré pattern, familiar in the shimmer of watered silk fabrics. Fundamentally, these flashes of apparent reflection are created whenever two or more grids of parallel or periodic rulings-window screens, for example-are overlapped. When misaligned slightly, they produce ripples and curves not actually inherent in the grids. The smallest angle of change yields the greatest, most disturbed pattern displacements...
Speck of Dirt. But in the early 1950s, it appears that Hammarskjöld found faith in God. "Didst Thou give me this inescapable loneliness," he wrote, "so that it would be easier for me to give Thee all?" Inspired by the medieval mystics, he strove to pattern his life after Christ's, an ambition that some Swedish critics of Markings chose to interpret as blasphemy or egomania; yet if Markings makes anything clear, it is that Hammarskjöld was a truly humble man: "How far from both muscular heroism and from the soulfully tragic spirit of unselfishness...