Word: pattonism
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...guys ran things--as producers, directors, bosses--and the highest-paid females were so much screen sirloin. The very job descriptions were sexist: cameraman but script girl. And ruling the set, in his safari jacket and jodhpurs, was the director--an amalgam of Da Vinci and De Sade, Patton and Hemingway. A man's man. No girls needed apply...
Serious business, indeed. West Point, said General George S. Patton Jr., class of '09, is "a holy place." The academy, said General Maxwell Taylor, '22, is "not for everyone, only for those with a true vocation." That calling is to lead in battle. "Your mission," General Douglas Mac-Arthur, '03, told the cadets in 1962, "remains fixed, determined, inviolable: it is to win our wars...
West Point loftily answers the critics by summoning up its warrior ghosts: Grant, Lee, Pershing, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton. "These kids," Commandant Boylan grandly declares of the current crop of cadets, "are the bearers of the crucible of all that is good...
...translation from one medium to another becomes stranger when one of the mediums is reality itself. If one thinks of George Patton, the image that appears on the mental screen is that of George C. Scott. The officer, real in history, a vivid and powerful coherence, a life proceeding through time toward a death, becomes someone else. The writer Cleveland Amory has reported taking his father, who knew Patton well, to see the movie. When the general's aide, Charles Codman, was introduced on the screen, Amory's father protested, "It isn't Coddie." Amory whispered that...
...TONY PATTON Encinitas, Calif...