Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow the bands were once again rehearsing that old standby, The Star-Spangled Banner, and those familiar little red-white-and-blue flags were once again being pulled out for street decorations. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were on their way for this week's meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev-the third summit in as many years. Yet the concept of détente has lost some of its earlier magic. Both sides will have to work hard to show that it is not only alive but thriving...
...While Nixon himself has not invoked Scripture or the Lord's name in his pronouncements to great excess, he has, more than any other modern President, given his Administration a patina of piety. Now the political crimes of Watergate seem all the more noxious because of that banner of righteousness...
...Milan and Florence, thousands of happy demonstrators poured into downtown piazzas. Euphoric banner-waving crowds jammed Rome's streets, blocking traffic and filling the huge Piazza Navona. In the Eternal City's working-class trattorias, flasks of Frascati white wine were broken out in celebration, while champagne corks popped merrily at Harry's Bar on the Via Veneto. Such an outpouring of emotion in Italy is usually reserved for the end of wars or the victories of national soccer teams. Last week's cheering, however, was a response to the outcome of the strangest-and perhaps...
...referendum has signaled Italy's turning from its traditional Mediterranean, clergy-dominated past toward the modern, secular social idea of northern Europe. That, at least, is what the vote meant to Turin's staid newspaper La Stampa. After the results were in, it ran a banner headline: ITALY IS A MODERN COUNTRY...
...citizen. Burgess also locates Napoleon's own blind spots. On drama, for example: "Tragedy must never have chairs on the stage. Tragic characters never sit down." And the Emperor's effort to abolish Europe's old aristocracy and nationalism, to create a unified Europe under the banner of French Enlightenment and Gallic law, failed to take into account the primitive, nearly mystical origins of national identities...