Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...character actor in search of his next role. The contrast is appropriate because rarely do voters get a chance to choose between candidates for the Senate-or any other office-who differ so clearly in persona and policy as New York Senator James Buckley and his Democratic challenger, Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...BIOGRAPHY of Celine, Patrick McCarthy, like others before him, traces the evolution of the author's racist and fascist attitudes from such relatively trivial incidents and jests to the collaborationist propaganda he spewed during World War II. But McCarthy diverges from the critical mainstream by treating the political pamphleteering as part of Celine's purely literary legacy. Typically, critics have turned to one of several options in dealing with Celine's work, ranging, from apolitical--some might say irresponsible--leniency to intransigent ideological indictment: Celine's politics have been ignored; explained away as the delirium of an unstable mind; excused...
...McCarthy relied solely on public sources. Given the circumstances, McCarthy must have been tempted to consult his predecessor's text. Yet she is footnoted only once in the biography, to recommend her work for a contrasting opinion. Considering the deft grasp of history displayed in Celine, you'd expect Patrick McCarthy to be a shrewder politician...
There are also cameos of the first stirrings of adolescence, mostly focusing on young Patrick (Gregory Desmouceaux). Smitten with a schoolmate's mother, he buys her red roses and presents them with trepidation. She is surprised and very pleased, and straightaway tells him to "thank your father." Patrick negotiates his first double date with a similar lack of success. He winds up at the end of the row in the movie theater, his buddy in the middle with his arms around both girls...
...leaders of the anti-Miller forces were UMW vice-president Mike Trbovich and secretary-treasurer Harry Patrick. In 1972, Trbovich and Patrick had joined Miller in a successful campaign to oust former UMW president W.A. "Tony" Boyle, now serving a prision term after his conviction on charges that he ordered the murder of UMW insurgent leader Joseph "Jock" Yablonski. Recently, however, Trbovich and Patrick have broken with Miller and joined the UMW international executive board's pro-Boyle majority in attacking the reformist president's administration...