Word: patrick
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This volume is the second part of a crime-and-punishment trilogy that be gan with Blue Eyes (1974) and will be completed with the publication next fall of The Education of Patrick Silver, in which Isaac rides again. The prolific Charyn, 38, an associate professor of English at the City University of New York, also has two other works in progress, including the history of an imaginary European kingdom called Whalebone. A resourceful scavenger of story ideas, Charyn says the inspiration for the Isaac trilogy came from night mares of his brother, a homicide detective in the New York...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan, professor of Government, led a slate of five Jackson delegates to victory in the Bronx. The sixth delegate elected in that district was the area's Congressman, Johnathan Bingham, who is pledged to Udall...
Professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, back at Harvard from his job as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, stretched his long legs down the tavern booth. His two cheeseburgers and draft beer sat untouched in front of him. He was, with characteristic gusto, into his subject. "These goddam elitist liberals," he said, "almost succeeded in running the workingman out of the Democratic Party." He spotted a passing bus through the window and began pumping his finger toward it. "They made that bus driver out there feel illiberal; they turned him into a caricature...
...conversation he had had with his principal aide, Haldeman. When Buzhardt heard the tape, he knew immediately that Nixon was finished. It showed indisputably that Nixon had lied in claiming he had national security in mind when he asked top CIA officials to urge FBI Director L. Patrick Gray to hold up an investigation of Watergate burglary funds that had been channeled into Mexico. The tape made it obvious that both Nixon and Haldeman feared the money would be traced back to the President's re-election committee. The motive was purely political and self-protective-despite Nixon...
Down Chicago's State Street in their annual show of strength moved some of the biggest wheels in the nation's most powerful political machine. It was the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, but regardless of ethnic, racial or religious stripe, practically every precinct captain, ward committeeman and patronage worker was there. At the head of the throng-which included members of the city's bureau of forestry, bureau of electricity, bureau of sanitation and bureau of equipment service-stepped His Honor himself. Sporting an emerald hat and a shillelagh, Mayor Richard Joseph Daley marched...