Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pattern of arrival and departure might be symbolic. By week's end everyone in Moscow believed that the Red Chinese delegation was ready to head home before too long. At the same time, U.S. and British delegations were due to arrive. The Russians were jamming Radio Peking but let the Voice of America come in loud and clear. Faced with the open Chinese challenge to Soviet leadership of world Communism, Nikita Khrushchev may want to ease tensions with the West, both to bulwark his position at home and to demonstrate the genuineness of his much-heralded coexistence policy abroad...
Knowledge and Disappearance is a virtuoso performance, with the lavender turning cool next to the red. Moreover, the pattern of alternating rectangles within rectangles has its own life. It recedes and then begins to emerge again as a pattern of simple rectangles. Anuszkiewicz' colored geometry becomes a kind of crazy-quilt corridor into which the eye is drawn and held dizzily as in some enchanted funhouse...
...sexual picture seems to be brightening -especially in the U.S. Dr. Levine thinks that "frigidity as a major problem for American women will disappear in the foreseeable future." Divorced people contemplating remarriage tend more and more to consult experts in order to avoid possible repetition of a neurotic pattern in the choice of a mate, and single women are breaking away from rationalizations of their spinster-hood-obligation to parents, waiting for "Mr. Right"-to obtain psychiatric help while still young enough for prospects of marriage...
...pattern of revolutions, the recent Negro victories have only whetted their hunger for full equality. Cries the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Negroes' most outstanding leader: "We're through with tokenism and gradualism and see-how-far-you've-comeism. We're through with we've-done-more-for -your -people -than -anyone -elseism. We can't wait any longer. Now is the time...
...Colorado Springs headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command, where Kennedy sat hunched forward in the glass control booth from which NORAD's commander would direct defenses against enemy nuclear attack. In an 18-minute electrically simulated surprise attack, he watched the screen trace a pattern of bomber fleets and missile waves from the Soviet Union. The bombers were stopped, but the intercontinental missiles came on and erupted in eerie white ovals as they struck American cities. Muttered one Air Force officer: "We have no way to stop them." The President emerged from the demonstration in a remarkably...