Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civil rights issue. More than 40 years ago, Austrian Novelist and Playwright Stefan Zweig wrote: "Among the 'rights of man' there is a right which no one can take away, the right to croak when and where one pleases." This bald manifesto might serve as the banner that Miss Mannes marches under...
...Watergate appears to be filled with uncertainties. Beyond that is the growing perception of the incompetence and malfeasance of the Nixon Administration. The best that can be said about the President's Watergate defense is that it was a bungle. The dimensions of crimes committed under the Nixon banner are now known and understood in some way by almost all Americans. -The history of this nation suggests that when profound moral issues like this one settle in the national soul, nothing will deny a final, convulsive resolution. Certainly the Civil War was such an issue. No fancy legal footwork...
...become the state of Hudson, and Alamo on the map is basically Texas without the panhandle. Under these circumstances, perhaps Old Glory could use some revitalizing, too, and Whitney Smith of the Flag Research Center in Winchester, Mass., has come up with a striking new design for a national banner...
...STAR-SPANGLED BANNER illustrated by Peter Spier. Unpaged. Doubleday. $5.95. Author-Illustrator Spier, 46, an academy-trained artist who grew up in Holland and migrated to the U.S. in 1952, is one of the finest creators of children's books alive. He researches historic subjects (The Erie Canal, London Bridge Is Falling Down) for months, then meticulously re-creates an era in delicate pen-and-ink with pale watercolor washes. This time, with his customary blend of beauty and utility (opposite page), Spier presents the 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry...
None of that has changed, either. The CBS cameras showed me a group of fans who held a huge banner reading "Fire Nixon, Hire the Bear." (Nixon, Wallace--it's the same principle). And each shot of Bryant on the sidelines caught him in a gesture or expression that matched my nine-year-old memories. They even showed him once in the great fatherly pose; and within his paternal embrace was one of my childhood heroes--Pete, my own classmate, who had fulfilled our high school's wildest collective dreams: he had earned a spot on the Bear's varsity...