Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each has on its face a phosphor that glows in a different basic color. Each little impulse (the colored freight cars) arriving over the beam is electronically switched to the properly colored tube. They arrive so fast that each tube-face is covered 15 times a second with a pattern of tiny dots corresponding to the blues, reds and greens in the scene being televised. The more red there is in a part of the scene (e.g., a red dress), the brighter the red dots on the corresponding part of the red tube...
...Douglass, is also responsible for a crisis in the theological seminaries. "So long as most of the 250 Protestant denominations try to train their own ministers, the quality of the training must suffer ... Even more serious is the fact that many young ministers are discouraged by the whole pattern of Protestant disunity. They are disheartened at the prospect of starting their life work in a community of competing churches-where there are not enough members of their own denomination to give them a man-sized...
...glance at future schedules and future squads makes it look as though this season's fiasco will be the pattern for several years to come. Someone is to blame, and it isn't the law of averages. It is the alumni...
Horrible or not, said Bacon, his pictures were not supposed to mean a thing. "They are just an attempt to make a certain type of feeling visual . . . Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas...
...Brattle Theater Company has in the past devoted its efforts to the ancient and modern classics, and perhaps one could say that "The Guardsman" is a classic of that kind, though of a far different cut of cloth. The fiber is weak but the pattern is bright, and the present wearers have given it a remarkable sheen...