Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the outcome of the "A's" was predicted. Crimson freshman Mike Terner upset the expected pattern of the "B's" when he edged out top-seeded All-American Leif Shiras from Princeton, 6-4, 6-4, in the semis...
Despite the increasing unemployment, the wage-price spiral continues. One example: the autoworkers' settlement with General Motors, which will set the pattern for the industry. If inflation averages 8%, the cost-of-living escalator in the new contract will boost the average cost of wages and benefits paid to GM workers from $15 per hour to $20 over three years, for a cumulative raise...
...novel was suspense; the tense was present, and the letter writers did not know what would happen once they put down their quills. Barth strips the form of any forward thrust. His interest is not in progress or advancement but in recapitulation. The letters are governed by a "Deeper Pattern"; the letter writers slowly merge in the conviction that they are living the first part of their lives for a second time or, as one writes, that "biography like history may re-enact itself as farce." Stasis reigns, history is not Viconian cycles or Yeatsian gyres but the thumbscrew...
...were switching a television channel. For a great power to abandon a small country to tyranny simply to obtain a respite from our own domestic travail seemed to me-and still seems to me-profoundly immoral and destructive of our efforts to build a new and ultimately more peaceful pattern of international relations. We could not revitalize the Atlantic Alliance if its governments were assailed by doubt about American staying power. We would not be able to move the Soviet Union toward the imperative of mutual restraint against the background...
...upon waking, before sleeping, and just for fun sitting around the fire with the neighbors. The film makes you realize that religion must have indeed been logical and practical to have survived in the hard lives of these people. In fact religion of these Italian peasants fits the pattern of their daily lives so closely that the dividing line between the temporal and the spiritual ceases to exist. When an old man plants his tomatoes near the stable wall "to keep them warm" as he tells his granddaughter; when a hardworking father gazes in unabashed love at his son studying...