Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MANI (320 pp.)-Patrick Leigh Fermor -Harper...
From the Tower. Other Greeks shudder when they mention the Mani, and few ever go there. In his mad-dog-and-English-man way, Britain's Patrick Leigh Fermor not only went but also brought back a fascinating traveler's account of this bypassed pocket of civilization. Author Fermor, a passionate philhellene, has roamed Greece for 20 years, including a stint as a British commando, and his book is steeped in myth and history, which sometimes slacken the pace but rarely dim the interest of his chronicle...
...voice that has not been heard aloud since Jack Kennedy went into public life is the managerial Boston baritone of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, 71, father of the clan, who has deliberately chosen the role of public silence to play down the fact that he is the dominant force in making the remarkable Kennedy family what it is today...
...clan came by its political instincts easily. The Kennedys and Mother Rose's family, the Fitzgeralds, came to Boston more than a century ago, in the great avalanche of immigration that followed the Irish potato famine. The families prospered, and both grandfathers, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald and Patrick J. Kennedy, went into Democratic politics-Pat as a backstage oligarch, Honey Fitz as a frock-coated ham who could weep at will at a stranger's wake, made Sweet Adeline his theme song, served three terms in Congress and was a memorable mayor of Boston...
Diagnosis Unknown (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A new mystery series, summer replacement for The Garry Moore Show, with Patrick O'Neal as a hospital pathologist who finds crooks in his test tubes...