Word: patterning
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...literary side the book is a straight throwback to Kipling and Jack London- a story involving the hazards of convoying merchant ships during the War, with a hero who, through duty and red-hot blood rather than patriotism, faces death as manfully as love. Added to this familiar pattern are modern touches of swearing, sex and disillusionment. As a result Deep Soundings plays hob with the tradition which demands that adventure fiction, no matter how tough its heroes, must preserve a cleanliness seldom found elsewhere in life or literature. As an example of the one serious book which every adventure...
...distinguished American writing about aesthetics has said, "A judgment as an act of controlled inquiry demands a rich background and a disciplined insight." Is not this equally true in all the countless affairs of life where judgments must be made? And unless a man can make a satisfying pattern of his own individual judgments he is under a great temptation to accept some one else's pattern; in other words to conform...
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...alias Joseph Wolf, Harry Gross, Harry Solomon, for picking a bus passenger's pocket. In court it was revealed that since 1904 he had been arrested 75 times in 14 cities-mostly on pickpocket charges-and convicted 26 times. Explained Pickpocket Fox: "Everybody has his own pattern cut out for him. This seems to be mine...
...only be judged when placed against the exciting background of the years gone by. As the figures of Cleveland and the first Roosevelt towered above the ordinary men in government at the turn of the century, so the man who built up the empire of Standard Oil set the pattern for that industrial achievement which characterized America during those years...