Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peasant, Park was educated in a rigidly disciplinarian Japanese military academy in the pre-1945 years when Japan was still the colonial ruler of Korea. Profoundly influenced by Japan's passionate prewar brand of patriotism, Park transformed it into a fervent allegiance to Korea. He joined the new Korean army in 1946 and enjoyed a swift rise, interrupted only once, in 1948; ironically, for so militant an antiCommunist, he was tried and acquitted of being a Communist agent...
Tokyo Kidnapping. Park used his enhanced powers to crack down even harder on his political opposition. Kim Dae Jung, who continued hyperbolically to brand Park an "Asiatic edition of Hitler," was abducted in broad daylight by the K.C.I.A. from a hotel room in Tokyo and spirited back to Seoul. Kim's kidnaping infuriated the Japanese, whose sovereignty had been crassly violated...
...American brand of nationalism was produced while people here were thinking of something else. The early British settlers already had their Old World nation, and long continued to feel themselves part of it. But they and all later comers to America -Irish, Germans, Poles, Italians, Czechs, Jews, Negroes and many others-were willy-nilly committed to a common search in a strange land. How to make a riving and a new life? How to clear the wilderness and get crops to grow? How to lay roads, dig canals and build cities? How to construct and organize factories, to find customers...
Perry finds some arresting images to underscore his theme. Beautiful Navajo rugs are spread out for an airing under the big sky as a cowboy works them over with a weirdly out-of-place vacuum cleaner; a brand-new Lincoln auto is pumped full of slugs from an ancient buffalo rifle. But Perry appears to distrust his taste for surrealism and settles too often for the merely slick. Similarly, McGuane, a highly regarded young novelist, tells us too little about the characters in this original screenplay. Rancho Deluxe might have been a film of considerable originality, something on the order...
...Penny. The Mosley brand of National Socialism never became more than a barnacle on a political system renowned for its tolerance and stability. He was condemned by his peers as a betrayer of his class, not to mention a "Fascist hyena." Mosley had blown any chance for power before he was 40. But as the perennial bad penny of British political life, he keeps turning up at embarrassing moments. Robert Skidelsky's generous biography appears at a time when people everywhere are longing again for order and authority. England is swirling dangerously close to the drain of economic ruin...