Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Never before the Nixon Administration have so many public servants served so brief a time in office. Of the top White House aides, only three have stayed on the job without a break: Henry Kissinger, Patrick Buchanan, Ronald Ziegler. Of the original Cabinet, only George Shultz remains, and he has shifted from Labor to Treasury. Nixon now holds the record for Cabinet appointments: 31 in five years; a close competitor is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed 25, but then F.D.R. served more than three terms...
...Edgar Hoover to L. Patrick Gray (acting) to William Ruckelshaus (acting) to Clarence Kelley...
...Critical Choices for America, a kind of ad hoc think tank that will debate the central issues of the day. Its 40 members, all chosen by Rocky from various pursuits and from both major political parties, include Vice President Gerald Ford; Sol Linowitz, chairman of the National Urban Coalition; Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to India; Ivan Allen, former mayor of Atlanta; Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; William Paley, chairman of the board of CBS; Historian Daniel Boorstin; Physicist Edward Teller and Clare Boothe Luce...
MYTH by Brian O'Doherty. 288 pages. Random House. $25. "Between an artist and his work on the one hand, and the audience on the other," notes Critic Brian O'Doherty, "there are large areas for misunderstanding." O'Doherty, who paints (under the name Patrick Ireland) and also teaches (at Barnard), attempts to correct any such misunderstandings about eight American artists: Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth and Joseph Cornell. Despite the use of a good deal of jargon, O'Doherty is remarkably successful. His interviews...
FASANELLA'S CITY text by Patrick Watson. 148 pages. Knopf. $15. Ralph Fasanella's city is New York. As a young man he was a cio organizer among electrical workers; now he pumps gas at his brother-in-law's station under the Cross Bronx Expressway. And he paints-vast crowded canvases filled with 40-year-old billboards, saloons, cigar stores, subway entrances. It is easy to label him an urban Grandma Moses, but Fasanella's paintings are crammed with emotions that range from sentimentality to outrage at the assassination of President Kennedy. His strongest qualities...