Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since he believes in "the certitude that everything has been written." Rediscovery and rearrangement, not "originality," are his objects. In the second Norton lecture Borges assured his audience that the world will never suffer a shortage of metaphors, even though they can all be classified in some ancient, fundamental pattern. As with a kaleidoscope, a limited number of basic elements has an almost infinite number of combinations...
...problem with the exhibit is that no real continuity of style emerges; no extended comparison or unified pattern of depiction unites things. In a sense, it is very much a dazzling storehouse of treasures and little more...
...country has kept The Club busier or given it more nightmares than Britain, whose economy has palpitated in maddeningly regular intervals through a dozen sterling crises in 18 years. The pattern soon became all too familiar: a period of expansion leading straight to the brink of bankruptcy for sterling at $2.80, then a rescue loan to buy time while the government damped down the economy. Once a spell of austerity built up Britain's reserves anew, governments invariably felt politically impelled to relax restrictions and let the whole expansion-to-the-brink process begin again...
Zena Gollum, an unMethodical actress of great power and appetite, takes an instant liking to Yank's play and to Yank. Following the pattern set by virtually all other O'Hara women, she is in a hotel room with him a few hours after they met. But after a brief affair, Yank decides that he will not put himself to the tests of theatrical glory and aggression in bed. He runs away to Vermont, begins his next play, and starts looking for other women...
After leading for the first three miles, he tired and Hardin raced by him for the victory. The same pattern held for the Heps where Baker led up to the four-mile post but faded to eighth as Hardin raced home. As one harrier put it this week, "Baker has been and inspiration all year. We knew that he would be leading and we therefore would try even harder to stay up with...