Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goodman's dismay, literature has followed this same asocial pattern. Fictional characters either accept their social roles and concentrate on their personal lives (James Gould Cozzens), or they withdraw from society and lead the life of the beat, the hip, or the drugged...
...rules of what's "in," decorous little teen-aged girls from fashionable Manhattan schools must this spring climb, white-sneakered, to the top spiral of the Guggenheim Museum. Low-voiced and appreciative, they stand there taking notes for essays on an enormous painting that has an all-over pattern of gooey brown and a row of real, 3-in. buttons running down the middle. It is called Coat. The girls do not laugh. Coat is pop art. And pop art, much as it may outrage Pop, not to mention Grandpop, is the biggest fad since art belonged to Dada...
...More Giants. Kerr's own colossus of seven campuses and 58,600 students (soon to double) reflects the pattern. Last year the University of California had operating costs of almost $500 million, with almost another $100 million for construction. It employed more than 40,000 people, delivered 4,000 babies in its hospitals, offered 10,000 courses, taught 200,000 extension students, and ran aid and research projects in more than 50 countries. No one man can really run such an establishment, says Kerr. The day of the "giant" university president is past. Now comes the "mediator" trying...
...other had, if he is told he will see great color pattern, or have a religious revelation, that is what will happen. Physical surroundings also affect the reactions, Alpert said...
...power." The ambiguities of our present situation in international politics, they say, is in many ways a result of our phenomenally rapid transformation from relative obscurity to world leadership. "In every aspect of our national life we have been forced to re-enact in a specific drama the old pattern of humanity, for we have been driven from the garden of Eden and an angel with a flaming sword has barred our return...