Word: patterning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York last Week, early morning televiewers who happened to tune in NBC-TV were surprised to find, instead of the usual test pattern, a strange series of vertical bands. Soon these changed to still pictures of London's Houses of Parliament and a landscape, then to a live model who moved little more than her eyelashes. The continuous tone signal accompanying the pictures was finally broken by an announcer. Casually, he explained that the testing period was being devoted to "experiment with and development of the compatible, all-electronic RCA color television system...
...Tradition" dies not necessarily imply the colorful fluttering of Tree Day or the hub-bub of hooprolling, but a certain pattern of conformity that the Wellesley girl, in spite of her acclamation of freedom, slips into until the habit becomes a part of the responsibility...
Picasso is not the only offender, according to Mumford. "The maimed fantasies, the organized frustrations that we see in every comprehensive exhibition of painting today are the evidence of a deeper personal abdication. Pattern and purpose have all but disappeared, along with the person who once, in his own right, embodied them. Man has become an exile in this mechanical world, or even worse, he has become a displaced person...
Nevertheless, I Was a Communist falls into a crude pattern, both as melodrama and propaganda. Its exposition of the Communist conspiracy-how the party does Moscow's work in U.S. labor unions, industrial plants, schools, minority groups -is as oversimplified, mechanical and unconvincing as the anti-capitalist preachments of left-wing Broadway plays in the '30s. For the benefit of the audience, the movie's Communists are forever reciting to each other, as if for the first time, the ABC's of party tactics. The picture represents Communists as simple gangsters, cynically out for a fast...
Santayana's chief quarrel with modern societies and governments is that they lack his and Nature's opulent tolerance. They try to stamp out their subjects with the uniformity of a cookie-cutter, leveling "all civilizations to a single cheap and dreary pattern." They aspire to be "dominations" rather than "powers," and domination is power run riot like cancer cells ravaging the body...