Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little and too late with help. Said one bitter physician after ten hours with his vomiting patients: "We don't mind hard work if it is worthwhile. But after a time the epidemic will subside only to recur the same time next year, and the pattern it will follow will be identical and without any improvement...
...violence and discourtesy, Nixon's reception at San Marcos set melancholy records. But it differed only in degree and cynically competent organization from student reaction in Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia, and the international Communist pattern was plain to see. The leaflet-spread slurs at the Vice President, e.g., "Nixon Dog!", the party-line taunts, e.g., "Insolent representative of monopolistic trusts," "What about the Negroes in the South?", and the phony causes, e.g., "Free Puerto Rico," *were everywhere the same. The aim: implanting throughout the world the propaganda theme of hatred for the U.S. in its own backyard...
...Pattern. The dwindling demand for Van's talents also followed a pattern familiar to other young instrumentalists: one big prizewinning season followed by relative obscurity. Most musicians blame the concert-management system for this state of affairs far more than they do the public. Between them, Columbia Artists Management, the National Artists Corporation and Impresario Sol Hurok control 90% of the soloists and instrumental groups touring the country. To the beginning artist, the Big Three offer irresistible bait: a chance to tour the country for pay and to build a reputation. But the reputations are built in New York...
Daphni's mosaic designers worked at a time when Byzantine artists, moving away from elongated and stylized forms, turned for suave beauty and expert molding to the long-ignored classic Greek models. The arrangement of the mosaic murals, more than 60 in all, followed the traditional pattern, with the Virgin supreme in the apse, and prophets and saints on arches, vaults and niches. The apostles and bishops attending the Virgin Mary have the mien and carefully draped robes of the Greek philosophers. On one shell beneath the central dome the Angel of the Annunciation with classic countenance floats against...
...meticulously drawn portrait shows Lady Dalkeith robed in pink, with matching nail polish, even has slivers of tin foil glittering among her painted diamonds. The academicians think that it illustrates their goal of acting "as a steadying influence on the haste or extravagancy of innovators"-i.e., the pattern-conscious "kitchen sink" school of art. Lord Attlee found Merton's painting "awfully jolly," but art critics disdained it as mere "craftsmanship." Flooded with commissions, Merton rejoined: "I only paint beautiful women, children and angels...