Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...philosophic systems that split reality between mind & matter, or between physical objects and man's ideas of them. (When someone asked him "What's more important, ideas or things'?" Whitehead replied: "Why, I should imagine ideas about things.") For Whitehead, all reality was a pattern of becomings and perishings...
This tale is put on film with the high polish, the intelligence, and the mastery of tension that are to be expected of Director Alfred Hitchcock. But Robert Hichens' basic story is so intricate in plot and pattern-there are four interlocking triangles, and hints of two more-that only an inspired talent for drama and for characterization could have saved it from obvious artificiality. No such talent is in evidence; nor has Producer David O. Selznick improved matters in his screen play. The only characters who come sharply to life are the barrister's wife (Ann Todd...
Class View. Sex behavior, Kinsey reports, seems to have a class angle. There is no "American pattern" of sexual behavior according to his findings; instead, there are differences as great as anthropologists find between the sexual patterns of different racial groups in remote parts of the world. The U.S. differences correspond roughly to educational levels. Many men who have gone to college, he finds, have kissed dozens of girls, had intercourse with none; but among males of lower educational levels, there is more intercourse, less petting...
Neither Bevin nor any of the other ministers last week gave a clear indication of what their nations would try to do next. Yet the pattern was fairly clear: 1) the U.S. and Britain would try (with or without French cooperation) to put their zones of Germany to work; 2) through the Marshall Plan, the U.S. would try to lift distressed Europe out of Communist danger; 3) Russia would try to wreck both these plans...
...familiar to him, eating together in the Union, going to the movie in rapidly solidifying groups. In every place that the rude alphabetical democracy of the classroom does not apply this breakdown evolves. Later in the year it is a matter of applying for Houses, and the yard roommate pattern is altered...