Word: patting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desk-Bound Intellectuals. The Democrats, on the defensive for what was indeed a wretched record, even suffered a defection from their own ranks. Nevada's Pat McCarran, a blustery Democrat whose chief concern with foreign policy has been a single-minded drive to bring Spain into ECA, declared that the dust had settled long enough in Asia. Roared McCarran: "I am quite familiar with the doctrine of those desk-bound intellectuals who got all mixed up, those gentlemen who would probably describe Al Capone as the product of an unhappy childhood, those gentlemen who saw a boil on China...
...Patricia Morison, who was on her uppers in filmdom before she romped and trilled through the Broadway smash Kiss Me, Kate, noted a change in the California climate: "A week or so ago when I sang at the Hollywood Bowl . . . people who used to nod and say 'Hello, Pat' . . . came dashing backstage and threw their arms around me, shouting 'Dahling, you were wonderful...
Suspense (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS). Pat O'Brien in True Report...
...Paris in 1775, Capriccio concerns a poet and a musician, each insistent on his own primary importance. They both court a widowed countess, ask her to make her choice. Her pat decision: she has no right to take either because they belong together...
...last word, as usual, came from Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, who loves to give the American head a kindly pat. Wrote he in the Listener: "The best analogy that I can find for the peculiar American-ness of such painters ... is to compare their products to those of American automobile makers . . . American cars are well-designed and well-built, sleek and shiny, and they are very comfortable, as cars...