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Within recent memory, basketball was a game of pattern plays as formal as any cotillion, of two-handed set shots that were lovely to watch but easy to block, of rules that set officials' whistles to shrilling at the flick of physical contact, and of defensive systems that held most scores well below the 60 mark. By those standards, today's game is absolutely unrecognizable in the professional National Basketball Association, which inevitably sets the style for college, high school and playground basketball...
Robertson on the prowl is grace itself. He flows down the court, head bobbing, shoulders feinting, every part of his body blended into one rhythmical pattern of deception. At his side, controlled by a sensitive hand, bounces a basketball that seems to accompany him like an old and trusted friend. For the flicker of a second, a Royal breaks loose, and in that instant Robertson hits him with a pass. Says Robertson of the art of passing: "Throw it as close to your man's head as you can. It'll get by-he'll have...
...Great, a melodious catchall in which everything from Juliet Prowse to the Hermes Pan Dancers looked like pigments of the imagination. It seems least important to panel shows (Concentration had a special technical block, with its enormous Scoreboard photographed in black and white so that viewers could read the pattern). But even in this category, color provided an occasional extra touch, such as the garishness of the goods displayed by The Price Is Right and the geriatric authenticity of a little old lady with blue-tinted hair on the otherwise tastelessly colored Truth or Consequences...
...threads wove a fantastic pattern. Top electrical-equipment executives, gathering together at conventions or in hotels, homes and resorts, worked out common prices, split up markets as if they were personal property, and devised ingenious systems for rigging bids on contracts, such as the "phase of the moon" system in which each firm knew when to bid low or high, taking its turn in rotation at the low bid. With most of the industry represented, the conspiracy directly or indirectly affected almost every dam built, every power generator installed and every electrical distribution system set up in the U.S., even...
...start from scratch," and to give such students the aesthetic experience he felt they needed, he began Music 1. Survey courses in the history of music without pedagogical mechanics of harmonic technique were rare in colleges, and, once again, the form he established at Harvard became an influential pattern elsewhere. As a teacher he was unforgettable, for as one of his own generation put it, "he is not satisfied with merely teaching; he inculcates...