Word: affectionate
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Sir: Many thanks for your generous cover story on William F. Buckley Jr. [Nov. 3]. It is appropriate that the man most responsible for engendering the current conservative revival should be so feted. As a college student I can testify to Mr. Buckley's enormous influence on campus. For...
Returning to Michigan aboard his chartered plane-appropriately, a de Havilland Dove-the Governor went straight to the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak to pick up his wife Lenore, who had suffered a broken arm and dislocated shoulder two days earlier when she slipped in the shower at the...
Patriotism is just as important as ever. The problem is in defining it-and few definitions are so elusive. It consists of three distinct but interrelated emotions-love of country, pride in it, and desire to serve its best interests. The love is easily traced to man's natural...
...degree of subjectivity, assay contemporary patriotism in even sharper contrast. Historian Henry Steele Commager thinks the dissenters of 1967 are the real patriots. "Those who have the most affection for the country," he says, "are those who are most alienated from its present policies. Those who are not affectionate are those who are selling out the cities and failing to educate the poor. I don't think it shows any love for country to be spending all our money on bombs and ignoring the rest of our problems." At the other pole is the view of Oren Lee Staley...
Being the granddaughter of Richard King, she also left behind upwards of $10 million-all of it bequeathed to "my dearly beloved friend," a 35-year-old patrolman named Michael De Bella. The policeman has never explained how he met Miss Atwood, but a grandmotherly affection obviously developed in the...