Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chrysler, Ford and many big parts makers on the spot. G.M. was looking ahead to the return of competitive selling, wanted no breaks in production. This week President Wilson announced that G.M. planned no price changes on its cars as the result of its new wage pattern...
...true to ourselves. We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs. It is vital and dynamic. And it works. We have the means of shaping the world in our pattern. If we do, freedom will be assured...
...which all twelve tones of the chromatic scale (the white & black keys in an octave on the piano) are arranged in a "row" in a highly formalized pattern. "Atonal" ( a term often loosely applied to Schönberg, in spite of his protests) means music in which the traditional laws of consonant chords are not observed. To most untutored ears, both sound like hell...
...immense canvas, upon which, as it stretches into darkness, we are to weave with so little skill the tapestry of our lives. The picture will never be finished and is marred by many confused, threadbare or mutilated passages, but at last and at a certain distance a Pattern will emerge which, though not of our designing, is the key and signature of Personality...
...difficulty of tutorial has always been lack of a specific function in each student's case. What would be emphasized in the utopian program as tutorial's own goal is coordination of all the student's scattered courses and reading into a pattern leading somewhere in his own academic field. To help the undergraduate think about where he is heading intellectually, to fit the courses he takes in his field of concentration into a larger idea of the field--these objects only tutorial can achieve...