Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen or read to be disbelieved. She is a coupon-clipping Pearl White hanging on the dizzy cliff edge of her every enthusiasm. She is a roaring Life Drive without a muffler, and the most commanding prose female since Philip Wylie dreamed up "Mom." Around her and her nephew Pat Author Dennis has fashioned a frothy drawing-room comedy spiked with smoking-room raffishness and powder-room chitchat. The little old lady from Dubuque will find Auntie Mame some gal, but no lady...
...Roller Skates. As her Beekman Place decor suggests, Auntie Mame goes through phases like revolving 'doors. In 1929, when orphaned ten-year-old Pat is put in her flamboyant care, Auntie is in her Japanese phase. Child-rearing brings out her progressive education phase. Little Pat is enrolled in a "divine new school that a friend of mine is starting. Coeducational and completely revolutionary. All classes are held in the nude under ultra violet ray. Not a repression left after the first semester." Pat is just working up his first good tan when the shocked male trustee...
Simple Idea. Led by its energetic President Pat Weaver, who is intent on upsetting "the robotry of habit, and stirring selective viewing," NBC-TV had a banner year on one basic idea: to stretch big shows from 60 to 90 minutes. To these large-format programs, Weaver gave a characteristically picturesque name-Spectaculars. In 1955, NBC did 39. One, Peter Pan, was two hours long and had the biggest estimated audience (65 million) of any show during the year. Seventy are already scheduled for next season, and plans are being projected for two-and even three-hour shows...
...editors, plus arty-party chitchat, have shown in the past month that Hartford does make sense to thousands of people. But his view that art should follow only a middle road-a three-lane, 40-miles-an-hour parkway between photographic realism and emotional expressionism-is too pat to be persuasive. It would sacrifice the adventurousness that often lies at the heart of art for the sake of mild, easy-to-take conformity. Hartford's oldfashioned black powder, however, did contain enough grains of justification and documentation to rattle those ivory towers from which weird obscurities are foisted...
...suave, articulate President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. likes to wrap his fancier TV ideas in even fancier clouds of philosophy. Last week in Manhattan, Weaver rose before a roomful of reporters to announce a new idea. "How wonderful it would be," he wistfully began, "if everybody were rich." By the time he finished speaking, riches of a kind seemed within reach of anybody with the price of a television...