Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great contemporaries. Being a shrewd observer Mr. Rood answers his last question as every thoughtful undergraduate could answer it: the college would first force these men "to wear hats and caps of the same style, suits and overcoats of the same cut, collars, ties, hosiery, shoes of the same pattern," then ostracize them until they were "out" for a team, a glee club, a publication, even brand them as "queer" until they thought like and acted like everybody else, and finally teach them in remaining leisure to dine elegantly, dance gracefully, and bridge skillfully...
...shadow, watched by the microscope and the lens of a special camera. The pulse moves in and out, currents move over the body and shake the threads, by whose photographed waverings the heart is studied. If the beat is regular and stout, the quartz will fluctuate in an even pattern on the photographic plate; if the heart limps the pattern, too, will vary; and its varytions may be accurately measured...
...latter are exceedingly dexterous fellows. Armed only with gaudy paper-tailed darts, they pose before the bovine onrush, or themselves rush at the bull, jabbing the darts* into his carcass in pairs so as to pick out an approved pattern on and about the withers...
...poetry of bell effects has always appealed to composers for the piano. In Borodin's Au Couvent, a bell tolls for 18 measures, silvery, gentle, relentless; Debussy composed an intricately sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other...
...epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...