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...Pattern's Plumbing...
...which critics found more penitent than profound, was followed by a new symposium America Now, more thoughtful and more hopeful than the indictment of U.S. civilization Stearns had edited in his youth. As a symbol of the "exile" period in American literature, Stearns had only literary interest. But the pattern of denial and affirmation that he wove into his life-the rejection of American values and then a sober re-examination of them-was part of the social pattern of his time...
...pattern of the last two Presidential elections is repeated, either: 1) this is the President's low point and Republicans may not even carry Vermont in 1944, or 2) the President at the top of the seesaw can expect to be at the bottom on Election...
Aspirations. U.S. soldiers "conceive of the jeep . . . not only as a means of winning the war but as a means of improving the peace, of getting to know their own country. . . . A remark often heard is on this pattern: 'When this war is over I am going to go back home and I'm going to marry my girl and I'm going to get me a jeep and I'm going to drive all around the U.S.A...
...Government-restricted on quantity (provided they could find the necessary materials and labor) looked with interest at Britain's six months' experience with standardized furniture. For, as has happened many a time in this war, the British experience may well prove to be the general pattern...