Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mary Goode, a member of Continuing Education for the Inner City Women at Tufts, and Pat Sackrey, head of Continuing Education for Women at U.Mass. Amherst, also spoke in the panel...
...with exotic religious sects. Patrick, a church-going Methodist, began heretic hunting as a leader in the FREE COG (Free Our Children from the Children of God) movement, a parents' vigilante group organized to reclaim offspring who joined that authoritarian fundamentalist sect (TIME, Jan. 24, 1972). Now Pat rick claims to have an underground network of deprogrammers throughout the U.S. They have recovered, he says, some 600 youths from 61 different fundamentalist, pentecostal or Oriental religious sects during the past two years. "Team members" of the underground network say that Patrick charges no fee for his services except what...
...have any professional credentials in psychology. Nevertheless, they claim their treatment always works. They liken it to an encounter group session. Other accounts of deprogramming indicate that the process, which can last from two days to two weeks, is something between a brainwashing and an inquisition. According to Pat ("Biff") Alexander, 23, a former member of the Jesus movement who recanted and is now a member of Patrick's team, the first step is an in tensive interrogation, sometimes lasting from morning until midnight. This is designed to "break" the subject by demolishing his false religious views. When...
...boutique and sportswear fashions, sold its entire output through a showroom in Manhattan. Since then, it has opened salesrooms in Dallas and Los Angeles; last year, only about 30% of its garments were sold in New York. Says Jerry Silverman, president of a Manhattan-based designer shop that counts Pat Nixon and her two daughters among its customers: "There is so much money in the hands of American women these days that dressmakers face the opportunity of a lifetime. But to get the business, you have to get on a plane and get out of town...
Some viewers might think that the members of PBS's American Family (TIME, Feb. 26) were naive to let a television crew film their private life for months at a time. Pat Loud, the mother of the troupe, agreed. Out from behind her big sunglasses, she told Dick Cavett that she did not see "anything wrong with being naive. I see something really wrong with being sophisticated." Son Lance Loud, 21, tossing his hair and playing the homosexual heavy, said, "Sure I'm glad I did it-People call up and murmur things into the phone and then...