Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of a continuing pattern of Administration ineptitude and the emotional tug of the Wallace candidacy, how does Reuther orient his strategy? His chief emphasis must rest with positive assurance that there will emerge a politically successful alternative to conservative weighting of the Democratic Party. On March 3 the UAW consequently proclaimed its alternative: "formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party." Harsh charges are made against the Wallace move: that "this third party is...a Communist Party maneuver to advance the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union"; that "this party has neither the organizational...
After Mrs. Riddle's death in 1946, the trustees interviewed some 25 candidates for provost, found most of them reluctant to step into the pattern she had laid down for them. Then they hit on Pierpont. The new head, a University of Richmond graduate (he flunked out of Johns Hopkins), was a headmaster of the lower form at a Baltimore school, later bossed a World War II Navy school. The first time he saw Avon Old Farms, he said, "I felt as if I had walked into the middle of a Charles Addams cartoon...
...pattern of his life cooled into finality before he was 25. Says Author Weber: "Having been unable to adjudicate between the claims of poetry and the need to earn his living, Crane found that he could obtain relief by evading the issue. He ... trusted in the natural benevolence of circumstances. . . . The suffering . . . was made tolerable only by his optimism and acceptance of evil as a necessary component of reality. The devices which he had originally employed as tools for innocent purposes-alcohol to stimulate his poetic gift, sexual indulgence for the love which it engendered-became narcotics, less adequate...
...Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office trappings and scampering office boys. Through the lives of these three and the circle around them runs a pattern of restlessness and failure to find self, high searching morality and low lust. Miller has written a novel that is good because it isolates and preserves for time ahead the tenor and taste of a certain significant period's play on some significant people. It verges toward the second-rate when...
...name around the Met, did a magnificent job with his orchestra. Particularly commendable was his handling of the dance scene in Act II, when three small on-stage orchestras are playing a waltz, a gavotte, and a minuet, all combined with the pit orchestra in an ingenious contrapuntal pattern. Opera orchestras are not always as skillful as they might be, but this week has shown no deficiencies along that line...