Word: pats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warning woven into his speeches since September. "We are in danger of losing our will to fight, to sacrifice, to endure. The slow corrosion of luxury is already beginning to show." Bejeweled and tuxedoed Hollywood Democrats nodded solemnly. As he introduced Campaigner Kennedy, California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown was attuned to the issue. Asked he: "Shall we allow a chromium-plated materialism to be the principal apparent goal of our national life; or do we not have a responsibility to muster a new national conscience, a new sense of public purpose in the face of the challenge...
...consensus emerged from stirrings of opinion, no pat judgment that the U.S. is "soft." The U.S. knew that, save in wartime or other great crises (the Depression), national purpose cannot always be precisely denned. The President's announced trip to South Asia (see The Presidency) was in a sense national purpose on the move. So, in effect, was Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's attempt to establish a durable world economic policy based on free trade and mutual self-help (TIME, Nov. 9). But there was no clear articulation of purpose. "Our leaders have not been able to give...
...some of its money back only by plopping the show into a favorable time (Mon., 8-8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), and selling it to an advertiser (Noxzema) that had long been panting in the wings for such a time spot. Says onetime (1953-55) NBC President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, now chairman of McCann-Erickson International: "The networks today have abdicated to the Hollywood studios and to M.C.A." Adds McCann-Erickson's TV Boss C. Terence Clyne: "The networks are not creators or producers; they are editors and purchasers. More than 90% of TV investment is spent...
...C.E.E.B. essay question is not in itself a panacea. It will take an hour, cover three pages and not be scored. It will go to three colleges, of the student's choice, which can do what they will with it. But it may at last replace the usual pat "biography" required by colleges, and students will get no help from papa. More important, it may help U.S. schools to find time somehow for putting meaning into words-with clarity, order, thought, vigor...
...Governor Pat Brown "indicated that he would like to speak for the Forum," and negotiations are being completed to determine the time and place, Adamany said...