Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handsome, icy-cool carrier officer, Johnson served aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S.S. Yorktown and the U.S.S. Hornet. Promoted to flag rank when he was only 49, he became the first skipper of the U.S.S. Forrestal when it was the largest carrier in the world. "He set the pattern of how these ships should be operated," says one top Navy officer, "and it has stuck ever since...
...SEATO and seemingly pulled away from the U.S. In the next couple of years, he denounced Communism and described U.S. aid as indispensable to keep Cambodia from falling to the Reds. In 1958 he recognized Red China, and ever since then he has continued to move in a zigzag pattern-or "sawtooth," as he himself frankly calls...
...said: "If 'a rose is a rose is a rose,' a rose is also a rose-making machine. Cheever is a storymaking machine." To untangle the somewhat lush botanical metaphor, this means not merely that Cheever is a natural writer, who thinks best about events in the pattern of a fable, but that he himself has become his own best-realized character...
...John called in a taxi at Mary's rooming house and swept her off to his Village apartment, where they set up housekeeping. Actually, with vestigial New England punctilio, Mary was installed in a separate room. In any case, events shifted the story into a pattern closer to John's anachronistic traditions. With all the pomp of an outraged Victorian parent, Mary's father descended upon the pair and demanded to know John's intentions. "Marriage, of course," said John...
...Shifting Pattern. The FCC decision permitted A.T. & T. to build its fourth cable-with Germany and France as junior partners-but also ordered that Mother Bell's competitors be given the opportunity to buy (not just lease) a part of it. Even more disconcerting to A.T. & T. was the implication in last week's decision that the Government wants to help out the company's smaller competitors. Some of Mother Bell's supporters feared that Washington might place so many restrictions on A.T. & T.'s combined voice-data communications service in the U.S. that...