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Bloomfield added that Bercovich "has just revolutionized the field of American literature." Bloomfield cited in particular the Columbia scholar's work in realizing the importance of Puritan typology, that is, the way those early settlers felt they were "fulfilling the Biblical pattern...
...after Harvard survived two early penalties, the game took on a see-saw pattern that continued until overtime. Blueliner Code knotted it early in the third stanza when another of his off-speed slapshots beat Sylvestri on the stick side...
...Professor Ed Sherman. But prosecutors want to win, and they "perceive that a Texas jury is more likely to give the death penalty to a black who killed a white." A similar South Carolina study found an almost identical pattern: local prosecutors over four years sought death sentences in 38% of homicides involving a white victim and black killer, but only 13% when a white had killed a black...
...every year in the U.S. until 1965.* After 1930, there were 455 men executed for rape, most of them in the South and 89% of them black, a majority grotesquely out of proportion to black sexual offenses. Black murderers too were executed much more frequently than white killers, a pattern that prevailed through the 1960s...
...electron "gun" housed in the vacuum tube behind the computer's video screen. This gun, following the sequence of signals, fires bursts of electrons at the back side of the screen. The electrons strike bits of phosphor that coat the screen and energize them, lighting up a pattern of dots. These dots form the shape of alphabetic characters, spelling out the message: DO YOU WANT ANOTHER CARD...