Word: patly
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...power-and-money elite sent their children to St. Albans (where Al Gore studied later on) or to Georgetown Prep, the Jesuits' country-club campus, out in Bethesda. Although Pat's father was a prospering accountant, many Gonzaga boys harbored a shame of the excluded, and a concomitant anger, as if we came from the immigrant servant class (as indeed many Catholics did) and were being educated, however brilliantly, belowstairs. The Jesuits' accomplishment was to redirect our aggressions into intellectual contact sports--debating, oratory...
...when it is at rest, the design of a Greek mask of tragedy, a curious effect. When Buchanan speaks I hear the driving, urgent undershadow of menace (promises of dark things, of retribution) that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy conjured; their voices are eerily similar, and, like Pat, Joe McCarthy had considerable personal charm...
Time traveling with Pat--back to the '50s, to the culture war of the cold war, with that sissy Adlai Stevenson orating in flickering grays on the Philco. Gonzaga did not make Buchanan a demagogue, but something in the school's inherent anger long ago and its bullying, underdog-wants-to-be-overdog righteousness went into Pat's brain, and came out nasty and dangerous...
...graduated two years after Pat Buchanan, and three years ahead of William Bennett, the entrepreneurial virtue-monger of the '90s. We are all Gonzaga boys. I see any one of us, long ago, mounting the stage in the dusky Gonzaga auditorium and declaiming "A Message to Garcia," while black-cassocked Jesuits perch along the sidewalls, alert and ominous as crows...
That's just what Alexander finally did last week, and just in time, surging to a surprising third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and a top-three position in polling just before the New Hampshire primary. With most Republicans rejecting Iowa runner-up Pat Buchanan as too extreme and divisive, Alexander managed to position himself as the electable alternative to front runner Bob Dole--the place where all the other candidates, perhaps including Dole, would like...