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...less. Virtually no other nation demands the daily reaffirmation of a pledge of allegiance. Hardly any other country plasters its cars, cocktail glasses and clothing with aggressive representations of the flag. But then, hardly any other citizens burn their nation's flag, or mock their own national anthem. To a growing number of Americans, apparently, the external symbols of patriotism have come to imply something else: a strident super-Americanism-or a collapsing standard of national and international morality. It is not difficult to perceive the causes for protest...
...courtyard of New Delhi's vast President's House last week, an Indian army band stood smartly to attention. As the national anthem rang out in the crisp winter air, Indian Army Chief of Staff General Sam Hormuzji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw stepped forward to the presidential dais and saluted stiffly. Then India's President V.V. Giri ceremoniously handed Manekshaw an ornate silver-tipped baton. With that, the military commander who masterminded Pakistan's humiliating defeat in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war became the first Indian field marshal in his country's history...
...winning Crimson shuffled off to the sidelines and watched as the band struck up the Egyptian national anthem and the crowd surged around its heroes...
...Composer Mitch Leigh and Lyricist Joe Darion contains the inescapable ballad The Impossible Dream, surely the most mercilessly lachrymose hymn to empty-headed optimism since Carousel's You'll Never Walk Alone. One expects to learn at any moment that it will be come the national anthem of some newly emerging nation...
...more toward the political center. As a result, voters were confronted with Labor policies not radically different from those of the government. Among the few distinctive Whitlam commitments: immediate recognition of China, an end to conscription, extension of the vote to 18-year-olds and a new national anthem to replace God Save the Queen. With so little to choose between the parties and platforms, it was probably not surprising that voters spent much of the campaign inventing new ways to show irritation. Some pelted McMahon with jelly beans, and one woman, in a Down Under variation of the Bronx...