Word: pattonism
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...Patton advances a highly original thesis: the villain of World War II was not Germany, but Britain. The movie's hero, General George S. Patton (George C. Scott), is distantly analyzed by little Goethes in Nazi uniforms. They pronounce him "a magnificent anachronism" and America's most fearsome belligerent. The British, on the other hand, are all whining limeys whose vindictive leader, Field Marshal Montgomery, nourishes his ego on the bones of American troops. One can imagine an equally distorted British interpretation mounting Monty as a knight-errant and Patton as a gorilla...
...Patton opens with the general's famous exhortation to the troops: "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." Brimming with messianic zeal, the movie general struts about North Africa as if he imagined himself a Carthaginian commander. And that is precisely what the real Patton thought he was. A mirror-gazing mystic, Patton believed in reincarnation and wrote odes to himself in his other lives. Today such attitudes in a draftee might bar him from...
Obliging Windmill. Director Franklin Schaffner's previous epic was Planet of the Apes. Patton sometimes seems a postscript, with wide-ranging battle scenes of tanks and air strikes that once again ravage the planet. The script presents Patton as a distorted Quixote, espousing an ancient creed: Hate thine enemy, and never let the home team down. In the end, what truly overtakes Patton is Patton. In a field hospital, the general strikes a battle-fatigued G.I. The shock waves of the slap reverberate back to America, where Congressmen shrill for the general's command. Patton is relieved...
...city's economic development administration has tried to dismiss Fantus' move as a publicity stunt. The administration's chief, D. K. Patton, a former Fantus vice president, suggests that Fantus thinks it can boost its business by persuading companies to relocate. Outside opinion tends to support Yaseen. The National Industrial Conference Board reports that the chiefs of some major companies are thinking of offering executives whom they try to lure to Manhattan a "New York cost-of-living differential...
...brass have their day, too, with Curtis Le May announcing, "The world is watching us in Viet Nam to see if we put our money where our mouth is," and Colonel George S. Patton III, with an aw-shucks grin, beaming into the camera and describing ARVN enthusiastically as a "bloody good bunch of killers...