Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...leaving the Attorney-Generalship, praised his successor, and said of the Jackson Day dinner: "Incidentally, I'm not supposed to talk about politics." In a few minutes the ordeal was over, the congratulatory messages were pouring in, and the newsmen were pounding out to fix into a pattern a week of shifts, new appointments, advancements, such as Washington has scarcely seen since the early days of the New Deal...
Nobody quite succeeded in fixing the pattern. Nobody was surprised that President Roosevelt appointed Frank Murphy to succeed Pierce Butler on the Supreme Court; that Solicitor General Robert Jackson stepped up to the Attorney-Generalship (and maybe to a better starting position, said the Washington Post, for a run for the Vice-Presidency); that earnest, aristocratic Francis Biddle of Philadelphia stepped from the Circuit Court of Appeals to the Solicitor-Generalship (TIME, Jan. 8). Nor was there much surprise that five new, long-impending State Department appointments were carried through. Nominations poured from the White House to the Senate...
...Pattern. Adding up big names and big figures, Washington found all this more interesting than enlightening. Some said it was because an election was coming, as well as drafts on the Democratic war chest; some said the moves were like a shot in pocket pool, in which the eight ball smacked the six, the six hit the three and James Cromwell dropped into the corner pocket...
Session III, prophesied Washington wiseacres, would follow the same pattern, bumbling along for three months or so. then cramming everything into the last few days before the legislators board their trains for the June conventions...
...itself Verdun will not resolve for good and all the questions about Remains' pattern and Remains' gifts. Many threads of narrative are left hanging in the past, many characters remain A. W. O. L. There are eleven volumes still to come. But all by itself Verdun makes clear Remains' distinction as a novelist, and it is considerable. It lies in the fact that he has been able to fuse the detachment of a social historian with the vision of a creative artist. From a formal standpoint Verdun proves him at least the equal of any modern writer...