Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neustadt in Presidential Power (a book Kennedy liked so well that he hired Neustadt as a consultant on Government organization), "is not the show of incapacity he makes today, but its apparent kinship to what happened yesterday, last month, last year. For if his failures seem to form a pattern, the consequence is bound to be a loss of faith in his effectiveness 'next time...
...still young, still searching for the right formulas. Despite the failure of the Cuban invasion and the foolish uncertainty over the tractor deal, there will be other "next times'' for John Kennedy to redeem his reputation as a political leader of potential greatness. Yet if the pattern persists, there will be a clear and present danger that President Kennedy, surrounded as he is by a din of conflicting advisory voices, may lose the confidence necessary to guide the nation through such coming struggles as Berlin...
...brick houses of Beacon Hill remain to remind us of the glory that once was Boston's. Louisburg Square, with its 22 houses set around little garden in the center, best reflects the serenity, the calm, assured optimism, the decorous propriety of the Brahmins of yore. The pattern of these houses is English; No. 20 Louisburg Square was used for the filming of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
...Harrison Baker, a newcomer from San Francisco who bills himself The Last of the Well Comedians (RCA Victor), is mildly notable because he is totally out of the new-comedian pattern, instead goes back a long way to imitate Bob Hope, with uneven results that are often funny. Beginning with the Pentagon ("a building that has five sides-on almost every issue"), Baker discusses the cold war in a deadpan style. Joseph Kennedy's way to solve the Cuban problem, he says, is to buy Cuba and sink it. Of the leading figures in the Congo crisis, Baker moans...
...hope that Mrs. Erickson might leave the treasure to them, says Director Ric Brown of Los Angeles' County Museum, "museum directors all over the world have been doing the fanciest snake dances about this picture." But, following the pattern of her husband's will, Mrs. Erickson divided her estate into 90 parts, and that meant that almost all the paintings had to be sold. For four months, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries and London's Sotheby's and Christie's have been bidding for the job. Last week it went to Parke-Bernet, whose...