Word: pattonisms
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...Mandrake as he shoots open a soda machine in order to get enough change to call the W hite House. General Ripper's discussion of Purity of Essence ranks with the great madnesses of all time. George C. Scott's portrayal of Buck Turgidson is far better than his Patton. Best of all, Peter Sellers managed to create Henry Kissinger five years before Nelson Rockefeller did. The climactic line of the film, "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk again" comes the closest I can think of to the epitaph for the twentieth century. Sellers' other characters, Col. Mandrake, the British exchange...
...play is full of disturbed men who can't decide what role to play, who can't tell, as Thurber never could, whether they're coming or going. A would-be wife murderer cowers when she threatens him with a monkey wrench. Walter Mitty fantasizes that he is Bogart, Patton, and Dr. Christian Barnard, but his wife can't seem to take him seriously. Thurber himself appears, his world collapsing around him because, as usual, his publishers can't figure out where he lives among all his previous and present addresses...
...food, medicine and ammunition when a German officer arrived with the surrender ultimatum that brought the U.S. general's famous, quickly scrawled reply: "To the German Commander-Nuts!" The "Screaming Eagles" hung on for five bloody days until the siege was broken by armor under General George S. Patton, who pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on McAuliffe...
...honorary committee of Ledyard '75 was a near-exact replica of the Social Registry. From the Hon. and Mrs. Standish Bradford through the Davenports, the Hallowells, the Peabodys and Saltonstalls, to the pride and joy of Hamilton, General George S. Patton, son of Gen. Blood and Guts Patton himself. Hamilton even has a Patton Park or some such memorial complete with a bronze tank...
...simply Harvard. After all some of our class were less than two winters away from huddling in foxholes around Bastogne with their commander, in a very un-H-way, replying "Nuts" to the Third Panzer Army's demand for surrender. And some--of them had even seen Patton, plain. Or though a glass, darkly, pear-handled pistols, white bulldogs, boots, spurs and all, depending on how you saw the man. They don't have this kind around anymore, which is all part of what I am getting at. There is a myth that soldiers don't like to talk about...