Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solo half-mile time trial as a freshman in 1:53.7, and won most of his 880 races outdoors averaging a respectable 1:56. But in an AAU meet in Baltimore last June, he finished second to Villanova's Dave Patrick in 1:52.4, about a second faster than anyone on the Crimson had run all spring...
...saving sponge of humor. Without O'Casey and Joyce, the play might have existed, but not so good a play. Friel utilizes reverie, flashback, and stream of consciousness, but his cleverest device is to divide Gareth O'Donnell into a public and private self played, respectively, by Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly. This palpable alter ego, invisible to the other characters, acts as a jazzy Greek chorus, a human pep pill, and a court jester. He laughs when the hero cries and cries when the hero laughs-an alert, ironic, ever-present border guard to keep self-pity...
...SOLID MANDALA by Patrick White. 309 pages. Viking...
Only someone able to define to a child what a spiral is without moving his right index finger can properly admire Patrick White's latest novel...
...Patrick White is such a confident contortionist. His double-spiraled mandala is the Hindu symbol of totality embedded in a glass marble, and his vast pretension is to spin out this bauble to encompass all human life in the person of its owner-an Australian half-wit half-man living in a suburb of Sydney...