Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the main difficulty with Grisbi is that it clings so tenaciously to the usual pattern that there is little room left for originality or for that special ironic humor that is so often found in its more exemplary cousins. It is an altogether tired movie about weary criminals who have pulled their last job and want to retire...
...been adapted to the traditional mode of the English novel of manners, sharply criticized his fellow traditionalists for attempting to impose this form on all contemporary novelists. In particular, he chided C. P. Snow for suggesting that "the only healthy, mature way of writing is in the traditional pattern...
Identifying with Papa. Among women patients, Jacobson found a standard pattern: when children, they had rejected femininity as their mothers inadequately personified it, embraced masculinity as their amiable fathers represented it. Sometime during adolescence, they decided they wanted to be women after all. The resultant conflict, said Jacobson, was expressed by a sense of nasal deformity (even if a serious deformity did not exist), because the women identified their noses with those of their fathers, felt that they were distastefully masculine. Women patients often told Jacobson that their noses "would look better on a man's face...
WITHIN hours after the pattern of the election returns began to take shape, this special issue-the first extra in TIME'S history-went to press. It is the product of weeks of long-range planning and hours of intensive work...
...contrast to these dreams, life on the African home farm is twisted in a pattern of almost Faulknerian grotesquerie; Daphne's uncle is in bondage to his farm manager through an unavenged adultery a generation back; Auntie lies year long in a whisky fog with a loaded revolver at her bedside; her one friend is a boozy Cambridge expatriate who must, for his own reasons, falsify what "home" is like. Society at the local dorp is of inconceivable tedium, and only the natives in their kraals suggest that life lived on its own terms may be a good thing...