Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosperous gentleman but when he learns that the girl interested herself in him to win a bet. his wrath is great and he flays her and her rich friends for a pack of rotters. A nasty accident and a reconciliation follow. Cut to fit a familiar, frivolous and unpleasant pattern. Let's Talk It Over is not much to talk over...
...calm tones of an oldtime liberal announced that it would be some time before the audience would have to start running for its life. After analyzing the nature of revolution, its causes and symptoms, Author Soule proceeds to fit current U. S. history to this revolutionary pattern, finds that the U. S. revolution is still in its preliminary stages. Capitalism is changing, but it still has a few tricks up its sleeve. ''The chills and fever of capitalism, observed since its infancy, shake and burn its whole body more drastically as it approaches old age." Wall Street...
...series of random shots, quotations, glimpses of the life conditions of the different classes, and brief accounts of various difficulties of the new program. While often disjointed and confusing it gives a wealth of intimate detail and ancedetal background. The story is not propaganda although it employs the pattern of a five-year plan epic and tires unsuccessfully to show how the new motivations of communism will replace the material motives of capitalism. The story is neither novel or text-book but has its value in its, wide scene and pictorial power...
...troubles endured by the Roman Catholic Church in recent years in Mexico, Spain and Italy have set a pattern of conflict which by last week was being closely followed in Germany. The pattern: an authoritarian, international Church in an authoritarian, nationalist State, the two being bound together by their common distrust of freedom and liberalism and driven apart by their respective determination to bring up and educate youth in a different...
...much more than a refurbished narrative of the tale of Joseph and they will not be disappointed. Author Mann has woven the threads of myth, history and fiction into a story of consummate artistry, but from time to time he deliberately breaks the thread, ties it into the deeper pattern of the tale's symbolic background. Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, Esau, Laban, Rachel, Leah take on vivid lifelikeness as characters in their own right, but at the same time their outlines are misty with suggestions of their ancestors and their posterity. Says Author Mann: 'I do not conceal from...