Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Following my pattern in other, similar situations, once having put the company on a profitable basis I stepped...
Charles de Gaulle needs a lot of room to move around in; and in the past few weeks two major events have combined to cramp his person and style badly. Two weeks ago it looked like political events in France were just going to follow their normal pattern: the President was going to overthrow Parliament and radically alter the Constitution. And he did both--but the results of his actions left de Gaulle in an ambiguous situation, in a world far removed from one ruled by the simple alternatives of "oui" and "non" which he favors...
...point out all the relationships between topics covered several months apart. The problem is especially acute at Harvard, where many students do not attend all their lectures and therefore tend to miss the lecturer's efforts to fit individual works from the reading list into some over-all pattern. A skillfully devised examination question, however, can lead the student to assemble materials from all the different parts of a course while constructing a single, unified essay...
Authors & Vegetarians. Andover and Exeter, plus some subsequent Ivy, produce a rich pattern of graduates. Exeter has one President (Franklin Pierce) and ten Cabinet members, from Daniel Webster to Henry Morgenthau Jr. Andover boasts a Supreme Court Justice (William H. Moody) and two Cabinet members, including Henry L. Stimson...
Instead, the edge of the alphabet proves to be a nebulous psychological limbo whose inhabitants are all the lonely, half-crippled, emotional misfits who exist on the pallid fringes of the everyday world. It is presided over by a weird, bodiless, placeless woman, Thora Pattern, from whose papers the story purports to be taken. Roving back and forth in time, to and fro in her subjects' minds, Thora Pattern records the edge-of-the-alphabet lives of three people seen on a boat trip from New Zealand and in London after...