Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Latin American politics take their shape from the pattern of the economy. Those who own the land, deal in exports and imports, or control distribution feel they must maintain elitist status. The economically disenfranchised, however, hold the balance of votes in a democratic election...
...with the same speed. When Western dancers dance the same steps, they usually manage, if precise, to look like a chorus line; if out of step, like bunglers. Perhaps it is the Indian refusal to split dance and drama that allows their performers so much freedom within a rigid pattern. The dancers needn't be exactly together, since the steps are only backdrop for emotion...
From Jean Renoir we expected more. In his 1938 masterpiece, The Grand Illusion, Renoir established the pattern for future prison escape movies. The Elusive Corporal, set in a World War II camp, certainly should not be the trite and unamusing bundle of cliches that it turned out to be. The intervening twenty-five years seem to have detracted from the man's skill at story-telling instead of sharpening it, a sad inversion of the usual relationship between time and talent...
...Boston primary clearly accomplished one thing: it probed voter sentiment in an area--segregation--which is rarely probed in the North. The results of that probe cannot be interpreted otherwise than that Northern whites are, at least for the moment, opposed to the changing of a traditional pattern of de facto racial segregation...
...biggest by far is the Uddeholm Co., which originally solved the one problem besetting ordinary stainless steel: sharpening it. An Uddeholm scientist 40 years ago devised a method for aligning the chromium particles into an even pattern so that the stainless blade could be honed as keenly as carbon steel. Uddeholm sold batches of that steel to Gillette in the 1930s, but stainless blades did not catch on because shavers found them irregular in quality. A sudden and tremendous demand began a year ago, after Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. brought out a blade coated with silicon plastic...