Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation in which the author is seen as the hero and the other actors have only supporting roles. But last week, as excerpts from his memoirs began to appear in the London Times, it was clear that Britain's Sir Anthony Eden intended to break this familiar pattern by offering his readers a cautionary tale dominated by "the bad guy." With only six installments in print, Britain's onetime Tory Prime Minister was already cocking his arm for a Sunday punch at the late John Foster Dulles-the man Eden considers largely responsible for the 1956 Suez crisis...
Just a Performance. Paradoxically, the battle forces get along best where the provocation is greatest-in Washington, where press conferences come as thick as Congressmen. President Eisenhower established his own pattern early in his presidency by inviting all accredited comers, TV and pencil newsmen alike, to his news conferences. On the other hand...
...crucial issue," he claimed, "is the lack of consistent and effective national planning and national policy on the supply of physicians and health facilities in the face of an explosively changing pattern of population, disease and health care...
...diligent participant was asked to untangle each puzzle, put it away in a safe place, and then send in the whole lot at the end of the contest. Each puzzle was a rectangular box in which letters of various sizes were arranged in an attractively confusing pattern. Underneath was printed a small clue: "This upstate village is a peaceful residential area. Its chief claim to fame is that than Allen and his troops slept here on the way to Ticonderoga." The solution was the name of a city, town or village in New York State...
Even after a coroner's verdict of accidental death, show business gossip ran on. The overdose of barbiturates that killed Actress Margaret Sullavan (TIME, Jan. 11) fitted too neatly into a pattern of eccentric behavior: departure from a Broadway show because of "ill health," the TV performance canceled at the last moment because she did not "feel up to the part." But last week it was Margaret who released a tragic explanation of her behavior. By leaving her temporal bones (which include the inner and middle ear) to the cause of medical research on deafness, she gave away...