Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Music, he writes with a composer's power of conception, a doctoral insipidity of style. In his long (674-page) chronicle he deals boldly, methodically with the social rigidities, dignities and horrors of life in the town of Kings Row at the turn of the century. The pattern is complete; the vision is undistinguished...
...days ago England proudly announced that it had laid mines across its enemy's life-line to Swedish iron ore. Norway protested, and Germany struck. This time there were no press campaigns, flying diplomatic visits, or ultimatums. In the old familiar pattern of war, the front has been widened into Scandinavia, and again America wonders what this move means...
...Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs and the music of gunfire. He told them time & again that supine neutrality is a cowardice fit only for decadent democracies...
Today, Tomorrow, Any Time. The pattern of Italy's future was still as obscure last week as Benito Mussolini's skill could make it. But from the doubt emerged certain strong probabilities...
...mouse in a labyrinth could not be more confused than many a voteful Wisconsin citizen, thus confronted with a dizzying array of blanks for his X. But out of Wisconsin's confusion the U. S. hoped to make a pattern of political sense...