Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved from the sleepy hamlet of Hudson to Cleveland, now the nation's eighth biggest city (pop. 870,000). It boasts eight graduate and professional schools that far overshadow its three undergraduate colleges (one for boys, one for girls, one for adults). President John Millis calls this pattern "what we think a university should be," but he also frets over lack of unity: "We are an aggregate of almost independent professional schools...
...sees. "It's a quality of color that leads me into the painting," says she. "I start with the sky and everything seems to develop out of it." Her skies are rarely blue. Especially in her city scenes, they are overcast; always they are suffused with a pattern of sweeping bright pastels that progress in orderly fashion through a hesitant horizon down into the richer-hued grounds. Her canvases are generally square, giving the illusion of more loft of sky than breadth of horizon...
...himself by a clever, likable man of 35. British Novelist-Critic John Wain was 20 when Germany surrendered, and has thus spent his entire maturity on this side of the Hitlerian watershed. This unusual book suggests that most British intellectuals of his generation have settled into the admirable pattern of cultivated men of good will. Not for Wain the grandeurs, miseries and plain fuss of ideological commitments that vexed the '30s. If there is one thing that makes him angry, it is to be mistaken for an Angry Young Man through recurrent journalistic confusion with John (Room...
When at the time the Redbook was written I searched for intellectual matrices within which the facts and procedures of science might find pattern, relevance, and meaning. I looked to the history, philosophy, literature, and cultural contributions of the sciences to provide these matrices. Now, twenty years later, I think we have something far better. This is the unity and relevance that science now finds in nature itself. Science is undergoing a profound revolution, and this is at the heart of it. We can now see the universe in a hierarchy of states of organization of matter, stretching without essential...
There is a predictable pattern to the way the New York Yankees win the American League pennant every year. For the first two months or so they hobble along, beset by injuries and slumps, while other teams battle for the lead. Then about the middle of the year they pull themselves together, push the other clubs aside, and take over first place on a permanent basis...