Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twitchy, neurotic bundle of well-informed clichés and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury...
...Such work is too dangerous. That leaves two types of assassinations: the conspiracy, as in the death of Lincoln, and the person-to-person attack. But the conspiracy against Lincoln was conceived and directed by John Wilkes Booth, Dr. Robinson argued, so even Booth really fits the more modern pattern: "A single man with a desire that results from long brooding to destroy a leader who is antagonistic to some belief that is very important to the assassin. The political figure has become a personal enemy of the assassin and must be destroyed...
Using the present Instrument Landing System (ILS), the pilot of a jetliner approaching a fog-shrouded airport hears the sound pattern of a "localizer" radio beam when he is approximately eight miles from the end of the runway. He follows the beam, and soon a radio beacon warns him by means of a sound signal in his earphones and a purple light flashing on his instrument panel that he is five miles from touchdown. A few seconds later, he picks up the "glide slope" beam, which controls a pair of pointers on the plane's instrument panel. By flying...
Moravia's pattern is distinctive but invariable: a Roman lowlife, male, gives a fourth-drink, first-person account of some minor downfall, failing to see its subtleties and thereby allowing the reader a faint, wry smile. The only thing wrong with the formula is that it does not require much space, and the reader is given only four or five pages between wry smiles. If the book is used as night-table literature, even the weariest citizen cannot achieve unconsciousness without meeting, say, the indignant wife of Federico the upright thief, the witless teen-ager who lives to dance...
...some courses, they take copious notes; others they stop attending after the first meeting. They generally begin studying for exams late in the year, and enjoy it so much so they wish (a little) they had started earlier. Even as seniors, they have not settled on a pattern of studying, but Skip around erratically...