Word: patched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poorly. Black ministers preached as often as they could gather a crowd and they preached well, well by black standards I mean here, or else the people looked for a minister who could preach. Styron's Turner could not have gathered a following large enough to raid a watermelon patch...
...else, and while they remember an occasional hurt, such as Frank's infidelity, they can scarcely recall a joy. Yet they are appalled that their son Richy (Bobby Alto) is breaking up with his wife Joan (Candy Azzara) after only six years of marriage. The elders try to patch things up. But incompatibility and compatibility are equally obscure. Richy's and Joan's reasons for divorcing are as fathomless as Frank's and Bea's for staying married. It is all part of the mysterious human comedy, enriched by the quietly commanding achievement of Richard...
...PATCH COMMISSION by Frederick Crews. 173 pages. Dutton...
...Yippies. Frederick Crews, 35, professor of English at Berkeley and author of such disparate books as The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes and the fluffy satire The Pooh Perplex, coaxes a respectable number of chuckles out of America's national preoccupation with youth. The Patch Commission, "a complete, uncensored transcript of the first day's proceedings of the Presidential Emergency Commission on Child Governance Priorities," describes an attempt by its three panel members to outline a "Realpediatrik" with which to save the nation from disaster...
...addition to Margin, the panel includes Sterling Patch, M.D., a congenital bureaucrat and head of the Bureau of Infantile Resources Potential, and Bert Rubble, director of a think tank called CEFALOPOD (Center for Attrition, Logistics, Policing and Deterrence). Rubble is by far the most amusing and terrifying character. A high-voltage action-intellectual wired into the highest power sources, he has written a book entitled Think Clear or Die. He wants to apply systems analysis and game theory to the national diaper rash; yet he has the touch of a hip nightclub comic: "I hate to break the news...