Word: patching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patch of Blue takes some getting used to. It starts as a pointless little tearjerker, then turns abruptly into contemporary hope opera. To save it from itself requires extraordinary skill, and the movie is fortunate in having miracle workers at hand...
...cloud of smoke went up, and then a roar, a screaming, enormous roar that no TV microphone could ever reproduce. It left the pad, and seemed to hover above it for a few seconds. The crowd applauded. Then it was off, streaking across the sky into an open patch between the clouds, faster than you could believe, faster than the screaming jets that followed it, faster than the cameras can suggest. In less than two minutes, it was out of sight...
...sureness of his observations and the permanence of his subjects' uncommitment--what remedy does he prescribe? He urges the unleashing of the utopian impulse. "What is needed is to free that impulse once again, to redirect it toward the creation of a better society. We too often attempt to patch up our threadbare values and outworn purposes; we too rarely dare imagine a society radically different from our own." This moralism has become a commonplace in recent political thought, as has the demonstration that it is unlikely to occur. It is as fatuous to exhort intellectuals to think in utopian...
...stage with Michael Sargent, the pace quickened and the laughter was ready for them before they opened their mouths. Sargent was Poo-bah, the Lord High Everything Else, a tall, grumbling hypocrit he portrayed almost perfectly. When he smiled a rare smile, he wrinkled every patch of skin...
Cupped in a patch of wooded hills in Issaquah, Wash., some 15 miles southeast of Seattle, a one-story building rambles comfortably across a meadow. A clear creek ripples near by, filled at the moment with salmon heading upstream to spawn. There is an air of bustling activity about the place, a liveliness that is surprising because the rustic building is a nursing home. It is one of an increasing number that are teaching their patients to get up and live rather than follow the old nursing-home formula of lie down and die slowly...