Word: pats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most insidious is Bok's pat on the head and counsel to mind our studies: "Individual scholars will occasionally have an influence through the persuasive power of their knowledge and ideas." Social change has only occurred in this country through organized protest, persistence, and practice. Carol Lynn Dornbrand...
...snakes on the Old Sod. They might as well try to convince Bernard F. Kelly, Sr. that his mother wasn't from Ireland. But if all it takes is a hit or two of green to make anyone Irish this week, who cares? The important thing is that St. Pat did indeed exist, somewhere back in the fifth century, and he did bring Christianity to the Celts who inhabited the Emerald Isle, not an easy task. At the time, the country was divided into many little kingdoms, many of which remain today as counties. The Celts fought incessantly in between...
Anyway, or so the story goes, St. Pat plucked a shamrock from a rock crevice to explain the concept of the Christian trinity to three Irish princesses he met one day. Their local deity, it turns out, was a kind of triple-split personality himself, so the ladies went for the idea right away. In fact they became the first Irish runs...
...pat also got rid of the snakes that plagued the farmers in the rocky Irish countryside, and the way he did that also showed some imagination. He brought in pigs--everyone knows snakes are afraid of pigs, or at least every Irishman knows that. And now you'll seldom see a snake in Ireland, except maybe at the bottom of a few glasses...
...hash-slinging employees and the dyspeptic customers hostage. Teddy's aim is really not to rob or murder his captives but to humiliate them. He forces a haughty middle-class tourist (Lee Grant) to bare her breasts; he makes cruel fun of the diner's crippled owner (Pat Hingle); he tells a fat young waitress (Stephanie Faracy) that she is doomed forever to spinsterhood. By the time that Teddy departs, his victims have been stripped of their selfdelusions. Meanwhile, the audience has been treated to a headache-inducing avalanche of shouting matches and two-bit catharses...