Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIVING AND THE DEAD-Patrick White-Viking...
...general theme of Australian Patrick White's novel is that the living and the dead are sworn enemies, that the archenemies of living hope are the indifferent, "the stultifying, the living dead." This fervently stated theme is worked out too intricately in personal terms to make much general sense. But the work-out is an uncommonly searching and sordid study of three middleclass, pre-war Britons...
...Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who smilingly took the stand, and filling the room with obfuscation, could not even make up his mind whether he should be called "Mister" or "Ambassador." Said Mr. Kennedy cheerfully: "Whichever way you want me is all right with me." It was the nearest he got to defining his position. Said he, in effect: The U. S. should empower the President to get the job done, but Congress should not surrender all its control...
...socially-conscious set. His 1939 novel, Johnny Got His Gun, depicted the mind of a soldier who survived Flanders without legs, arms, sight, hearing, even without a face. It was as sharp as bloodied barbed wire, retchsome as the smell of gas gangrene, it was a gruesome refutation of Patrick Henry's naïve views...
Illustrative of the great tradition of Irish medieval religious art, there are replicas of the famous brass shrine of the Bell of St. Patrick, of the beautiful processional Cross of Cong. of the Ardagh Brooch, the Book Shrine of St. Molaise, the Crozier of Lismore, and the Misach Book Shrine...