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...year career, is both simple and brutal: capitalism is a contagious disease, and the carrier is money. Bourgeois parents reward their sons for lying about money. The surest way out of a sticky situation is bribery. Currency is as counterfeit as the system it supports. A young man (Christian Patey) unknowingly passes a phony 500-franc note, but be cause his stubborn rectitude marks him as an alien in the kingdom of greed, he must suf fer an almost comic series of calamities: fired from his job, then jailed, then abandoned by his wife (Caroline Lang). His child must...
...graffito distressed the cathedral's Dean, the Very Rev. Edward Patey, a clergyman known for his social conscience, but he defended the project forthrightly. "It might be called wasted space, wasted heat, by some," he says today, "but there is an instinct that one aspect of worship of God is to be aware of our smallness in proportion to his majesty. The medieval builders felt this. To go to worship God is not just like going out to buy a packet of fish and chips." As for the cost, Dean Patey has no apologies: "Compared with what people spend...
...Patey concedes that Liverpool's Cathedral was built only because it was started long ago: to launch a similar project now "would not fit the mood of the church today." But, he adds, "we have here in the work of stonemasons, stained glass artists, carpenters, sculptors, organ builders, metal workers, clear evidence that in an age which too easily tolerates the shoddy and second-rate, we can find craftsmen who can match any who have gone before. I'm glad that Merseyside has actually completed one of the great buildings of the world in a century...
...George Patey is a public relations man whose reach exceeds his grasp, but within his grasp, he has the entire wall against which Al Capone's gunmen shot down seven rival gangsters on St. Valentine's Day of 1929. Patey was in his native Vancouver one morning in 1967 when he heard on the radio, that the famous wall on Chicago's North Clark Street was about to be demolished. He immediately got on the telephone and, for a price he keeps to himself, bought it. Says he: "They tore down the wall and shipped...
...young listeners to disregard and rise above their confessional loyalties. "For God's sake, be impatient," he urged. "There will be no movement in the ecumenical move ment unless we are ready to step out of our traditions." Although the assembly's president, Anglican Canon Edward Patey, formally refused to sanction joint Communion, more than 1,000 young people commandeered the Reformed Church of Switzerland's St. Francois Cathedral and celebrated Communion together. Said one German student: "This is the most tremendous thing of the entire assembly. This is more important than words." But at assembly...