Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oregon's maverick Democratic Senator Wayne Morse is a teetotaler who believes in preaching what he practices. In the Senate last week he rose up to denounce the "desecration of the buildings belonging to the taxpayers." Cried Morse: "There is a growing social pattern of holding affairs in rooms in the Capitol and in the Senate Office Buildings at which hard liquor is served. In my opinion it cannot be justified. It ought to be stopped forthwith ... I will not knowingly attend such an affair, and if I find myself in such an affair and hard liquor is being...
Playing the Raisins. No two aleatory composers get their random results in quite the same way. Cage, who is regarded as particularly ingenious, determined the notes for his Music for Piano by following the pattern of the "imperfections in the paper on which the music was written." Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is perhaps the most influential of Europe's aleatory composers, instructs performers to play any portion of his music that their eyes first fall on. His Cycle, for one percussionist, has spirally bound pages to make it simpler for the performer to begin or end wherever...
...Rutherford Stuyvesant built the first-a thick-walled, five-story brick building on East 18th Street. He called it Stuyvesant Apartments, but most other people dubbed it Stuyvesant's Folly. Still, these "French flats," patterned after Parisian apartments of the day, right down to the watchful concierge, caught on fast. Until the day it was torn down a few years ago, the building never had a vacancy. Moreover, it set the pattern. As the residential section of the city crept uptown, fashionable New Yorkers moved in evergrowing numbers into the massive and ornate variants of Stuyvesant's Folly...
Because Greyhound had a virtual monopoly of existing long-haul interstate routes and the ICC was unwilling to franchise new ones, Moore was obliged to build up his system by buying small local bus lines in a careful pattern that linked them into new long-haul routes. Octopus-like, Continental stretched its tentacles across the Southeast and into the Midwest; by 1953 the company had its first transcontinental route (it now operates five). At that point Moore found that his fledgling system lacked the equipment to capitalize on the bus industry's greatest potential asset: the growing U.S. network...
...thick black abstract strokes do today. The painting called Nijinsky is followed by an illuminating sketch of a rocking chair done in 1951. Here, the chair's structure is so loose that its parts seem about to fly off to form a new and wholly unpredictable pattern. The jump from there to Probst I is not a leap...