Word: patterning
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...this may be true. A pattern in lieu of an individual may conceivably be the product of House units. And if faculties are such fools as the writer believes they may carelessly allow a hot-head or two to wiggle into their midst. In one of his minor digressions, Mr. Hale attacks Professor Babbitt of Harvard. From the tenor of the article, one might expect Professor Babbitt to be the epitome of the author's desires. Not a hot-head to be sure, but the humanist has on occasion provoked intelligent and original thinking; even his undergraduate opponents, and they...
...presidential campaign fund and thereafter, upon his candidate's election to the White House, is rewarded with an Ambassadorship, nobody seriously accuses him of having bribed the President of the U. S. to obtain a good fat job. But because he shuffled this standardized political procedure into an illegitimate pattern an ex-Congressman of Indiana last week stood convicted in Federal court of bribery and job-selling. His conviction loomed as a general warning to all other Congressmen to play the patronage game according to the rules...
...long dis carded the skirling imagery of Petrushka and The Firebird. When he wrote Oedipus he was deep in a desire to return to the classicists, anxious perhaps to begin all over again, to see where a new trail would take him. He chose an old, formal pattern fundamentally similar to the Handel oratorios...
...part of Stokowski's genius is expressed in his willingness to walk where angels fear to tread. It is nothing new for him to appear to know more about a piece of music than the man who wrote it. Much of Stravinsky's Oedipus, despite its rigid pattern, is powerful dramatic music, worthy of translation. So, for Philadelphians, last week Stokowski proceeded to translate it, using modernistic idioms: The speaker (Negro Wayland Rudd; recalled the story in English through a loud speaker attached to the proscenium arch. On a platform above the singers, puppets 15 feet tall represented the Greek...
Most U. S. school children would probably find the Brecht-Weill opus perplexing. The pattern is complex: Lindbergh's Flight is a cantata for orchestra, chorus and soloists. Lindbergh, represented by a tenor, describes himself, his preparations, his emotions during the flight, in a pompous, swaggering manner quite unlike the popular U. S. idea of him. The chorus exhorts him as he starts, exalts him in a hymnlike way at the finish. During the flight a baritone radios all ships to watch out for him. A bass solo, with the smoothest music in the cantata, urges him to sleep...