Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMERICAN bookstores are so flooded today with studies in radicalism of one kind or another that most of these exercises invariably find their way to the scrap heap. Not that they are all pat rhetoric, it's simply that no real market exists for them. The political mood of the country is so staid and complacent that there is little interest in critiques which forcefully challenge American society or even go so far as to suggest unorthodox remedies for the evil of the Indochina...
...betrothed merit close scrutiny. Unlike, say, Luci Johnson, who was a fairly girlish and unformed 19 when she married Pat Nugent, Tricia Nixon, at 25, is a young lady of high, imperious and sometimes mysterious definition. Whatever the lollipop image her Buster Brown hats and patent shoes may have given her, Tricia is a cool, self-possessed woman with a porcelain near beauty and a talent for conservative mots. Some detect in her a steely if youthful combination of the manner of Grace Kelly and the views, not so oft expressed, of Martha Mitchell. And, of course, a psychogenetic blend...
...wedding approached?along with Ed's law school exams, which ended last week?Tricia and her mother mobilized a small army of more than 100 chefs, florists, seamstresses, painters and calligraphers. Pat Nixon threw herself into it with a special enthusiasm that may have assuaged the unhappiness of knowing that both of her daughters have left her wing. Even though she and the President will celebrate their own 31st wedding anniversary nine days after Tricia's wedding, Mrs. Nixon insists that she has no advice to offer her daughter. "We've always been so close," she says. "We've always...
...kids wander around the place, not exactly at home but definitely in control of the situation. Michael, with the loveliest, fullest, twelve-year-old Afro you'll hope to see, has the history of the group down pat: "We all started singing together after Tito started messin' with Dad's guitar and singin' with the radio. It was Tito decided we should form a group, and we did, and we practiced a lot, and then we started entering talent shows, and we won every one we entered, and then we did this benefit for the mayor...
...Edward Durell Stone's $66 million marble-and-glass national cultural center were 3,750 paying guests ($100 each; $40 for those under 35). Together they constituted a gallery from Camelot and Nixonian Washington. Matriarch Rose, 80, led the Kennedys, including the Sargent Shrivers, the Stephen Smiths and Pat Kennedy Lawford. Joan Kennedy played piano with Bandleader Peter Duchin. Ethel Kennedy appeared with Singer Andy Williams. President Nixon was represented by David and Julie Eisenhower; they escorted Mamie Eisenhower, whose husband signed a bill authorizing such a center 13 years ago. The President's men mingled with their...