Word: patricks
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Without violating the text, which has been rendered into fluently idiomatic English by Christopher Hampton, the sure and subtle inflection of Patrick Garland's direction makes Ibsen appear as the godfather of Women's Lib. If it counts as an imprimatur, Betty Friedan was in the opening-night audience. Since Ibsen is a seductively powerful dramatist and the evening's didactic thrust is something like "Go thou and do likewise," it is important to examine Ibsen's intent and Nora's behavior...
Financial pressures on mayors and governors reflect a drastic change in the makeup of the overall U.S. tax dollar. "The Federal Government is good at some things and bad at others," says Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has departed from his job as President Nixon's urban affairs adviser. "It is perhaps best at collecting taxes." Increasingly, the collection of public moneys depends on personal and corporate income tax, a form of levying largely reserved for the Federal Government. Meanwhile the traditional base for municipal taxation-real estate-has stagnated, largely because of the move of businesses and middle-class...
Nixon praised Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who is resigning as his adviser on urban affairs to return to his post as professor of Education here, saying that criticism of Moynihan's secret memo proposing a policy of "benign neglect" toward the problems of blacks in America...
...prepared to leave the White House staff for a teaching post at Harvard, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was brooding about the morale and the reputation of the Nixon Administration. Somehow, Moynihan thought, the President and his men were dispirited, and sometimes almost half believed their worst press notices-about lack of accomplishment, a certain institutional Republican grayness. an obtuseness and even a repressive urge...
...Phases. The unifying thread of the book is the funeral at Manhattan's St. Patrick's, and the interminable train ride from New York to Washington, where Robert Kennedy was buried. "His life, in a way, was all aboard that funeral train," observes Artist William Walton. "All the phases: the people he had known, from school friends, family friends, college friends, his early political friends and associates, and nonfriends . . . people who had gotten woven into his life...