Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somber mood, but the young teachers moved them deeply by singing, in Twi, the anthem Yen Ara Asase Ni (Land of Our Birth). Said U.S. Ambassador Francis Russell: "I know that they will establish deep and lasting friendship while they are here, and that they are establishing a pattern that will do great good in many ways for many people." To this sentiment, most Americans would add a hopeful amen...
...multistranded account of life in a slum street, replete with greed, brutality and love. It focuses on Philip Hayman, an aspiring young writer who is ready for his last year in college and ready, too, for romantic agony. The book is built on the familiar cross-section pattern, and to some degree succumbs to the risks of that method: the parts do not sufficiently buttress one another; they simply follow one another...
During weeks of hit-and-run sniping, the Viet Cong Communists ran up an impressive score. Two National Assembly Deputies were shot dead in a Jeep outside Banmethuot. A bus was dynamited. Several district chiefs were wounded. Fortnight ago, eight Vietnamese Catholic priests were kidnaped. The old pattern of isolated terror seemed to be reasserting itself, and Vietnamese morale sank steadily...
...European Economic Community last week came a message from "the British government formally requested admission to the Common Market. Hours later in Washington, President Kennedy declared that he was "gratified" by the step, but added: "The enlargement of the European Community will necessarily result in some changes in the pattern of trade." By any standard, this was an understatement. If Britain does, in fact, negotiate its way into the Common Market, the impact on the $20 billion-a-year U.S. export trade will be profound. Among the likely consequences...
Marie, an itinerant American journalist, might not make it in the Peace Corps today. She is of an older vintage of do-gooders, descended from Rousseau and Thoreau, firmly convinced that she sees "in a little community of naked savages the pattern of an earthly paradise." She quickly learns her mistake. The Nigerian tribes she has come to study want to be left alone, of course. Their good luck is to have an English district officer who wants the same thing. Bewsher is a typical Gary character-humane, eccentric, ready with the bottle, and just as ready to foxtrot...