Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chancellorship of West Germany. In a whirlwind week, he talked to a Meet the Press panel, conferred with President Kennedy, addressed the Herzl Institute, named after the founder of Zionism. Wearing a green tie, he stood for hours as a guest of honor, reviewing Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day parade. His message everywhere was of a Germany repentant of its past, proud of its progress, and pledged to "unbreakable friendship with the United States and the Western community...
More than 250,000 Irishmen, real or imagined, lined the streets of South Boston yesterday for the annual St. Patrick's Day parade. The march also marked Evacuation Day in memory of the British withdrawal from Boston on March...
Meanwhile, at Harvard, the typical reaction to St. Patrick's Day was, "Yeah, now that you mention it, I guess it is." MTA employees celebrated the glories of the day with a gathering at Cronin...
...also stupefyingly sexy. Assaults of varying skill have been made upon her virtue almost daily since she turned 14, and unlike some girls whom men are always bothering, this bothers her, particularly after she leaves home to teach grammar school and falls in love with a Latin master named Patrick Standish. They meet, neck heavily, wrench apart, argue earnestly, and smoke more cigarettes than are good for them. This goes on for months, and toward the end of the novel the reader has begun to wish that Jenny and Patrick would either get on with it or take cold showers...
...then the book carries echoes of Lucky Jim's brattish humor, and Author Amis remains a shrewd, accurate observer of what sociologists call courtship patterns. He also has a message of sorts. After a particularly hectic session, Patrick tells Jenny bitterly that there are two kinds of men these days, the sort who despoil maidens as often as possible and the sort who have no desire to do so. The kind who wanted to but waited, he says, died...