Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coplon gave the Republicans more wallop than they had before. The headline-catching feints of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy (see below), even if he hadn't landed any hard blows, were not making it any easier. Five speech-writing aides were put to work preparing the pattern of the President's countertactics...
...further destroying the conventional pattern of home life...
...after hour, throughout the night, throughout the day, without respite or end. How can I best explain? The only straw for which I could reach is the impression that I had, in my emptied, vacant thoughts, of some sentence that had pleased them, or that had conformed with the pattern I had so often seen in the newspapers. And if I were to stop and plead fatigue, or poor memory, or ask to rest-the wall again, and the slaps, and the blows in the nape [of the neck]. And I remembered I would come up gasping and talk...
...Ideal Pattern. When Australian-born Gilbert Murray entered St. John's College, Oxford, in the 1880s, the great Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett, translator of Plato and Master of Balliol College, was one of the most venerated and influential men in England; Gladstone and his Liberals seemed to be among the eternal forces in English politics, and the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne was much admired. In years to follow, if fewer & fewer men bore the hallmark of the Greek scholar and the classicist, it was not Gilbert Murray's fault...
Murray had other interests besides ancient literature. In classical Greece he saw the ideal pattern for the skeptical humanism which guided his own active political life. In party politics Murray was a Liberal, stumped unsuccessfully for Parliament three times. He backed Lloyd George's social reforms, wrote a book commending the policies of Britain's World War I Foreign Secretary, Liberal Sir Edward Grey...