Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charge of the bureau's initial digging into the Watergate scandal in 1972. He and several other agents wanted to conduct an aggressive investigation that might well have led them to the White House officials who ran the Watergate coverup. But Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray was reluctant to push the probe, especially after the CIA, at the instigation of White House aides, urged him to restrict the inquiry, ostensibly to protect U.S. intelligence activities in Mexico. At Bates' suggestion, Gray asked the CIA to put the requests in writing, and the CIA officials backed off. Instead...
...defection would undoubtedly come as a shock to his loyally pious fans, many of whom presumably associate priestly dropouts with apostasy. Unlike many liberals, however, Lyons is following the proper rules for leaving. In his heyday, Lyons was a formidable figure in conservative Catholicism. With Schick Razor King Patrick Frawley, Lyons started Twin Circle in 1967, served as its editor and got Frawley to take over the Register in 1970. He also raised money from conservatives to buy the 77-year-old priests' monthly, Homiletic and Pastoral Review...
...many readers of The Ginger Man, James Patrick Donleavy's first and best novel, can somehow imagine its savagely baleful young anti-hero Sebastian Dangerfield being resurrected a quarter of a century afterward and sitting down to compose an advice book for late 20th century man, they should have a rough idea of The Unexpurgated Code. It might well be subtitled I'm Not O.K., You're Not O.K. A collection of bilious and often funny rules for living, the book qualifies as philosophy according to Donleavy's own definition: thoughts generated while confronting "wind, flood...
...certain sense correct. It's misdirected critiscism to call even Unheavenly City a racist book. In the book Banfield chides massive welfare spending programs as false cures of urban ills and proposes an ideology to back up Daniel Patrick Moynihan's theory of "benign neglect" towards racial problems...
...Patrick D. Kelly...