Word: communisme
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...nothing below his chest. He will never again walk nor make love to a woman: his condition is permanent and without hope. A "Yankee Doodle boy born on the Fourth of July," he had gone to Vietnam in defense of the American dream and to fight the scourge of communism. He has returned not as the conquering hero, but as a cripple, his spinal cord shattered by a volley of rifle fire. The young president's words linger in his mind, the words of the president whom he loved so much, "Ask not what your country...
Wounded Feelings. Ford obviously did not mean what he said. But his remark wounded the feelings of many Polish Americans and others of Eastern European extraction. The postwar immigrants in particular are bitter about the oppression of Communism, and they are inclined to regard their homelands with much the same fervor that American Jews feel for Israel. While people now living in Eastern Europe have generally made their accommodation with the regimes, the immigrants-and many first-and second-generation Americans - remain unalterably opposed to Communism and await, however forlornly, its overthrow...
...told the audience, "I find myself in a great dilemma tonight. My Catholic friends of Polish descent assembled here shout, 'Come sit and dine with us!' My pro-life friends outside clamor, 'Come stand by us!' " The bishop compromised by condemning both Communism and abortion, hailing "God and country" and "liberty and life...
...unresolvable policy differences that have divided China's two main factions for at least a decade. To be accurate, however, the commonly used terms radical and moderate are somewhat misleading. There is actually a good deal of common ground between the two groups -both are dedicated to Communism -and there are wide differences within each main camp. In general, the moderates could just as well be called pragmatists; they tend to be more flexible than the radicals, more concerned with practical results than the way the results are achieved. The radicals, in contrast, believe with a religious zeal...
...with the papacy over his divorce, assuming that most English-speaking readers know it already. At other times, though, particularly in his discussion of more recent times, Johnson's book has some peculiar lacunae. There is not a word about Russian Orthodoxy under the Czars, or under Communism. Nor about pentecostalism, a significant force in American Christianity since the turn of the century and now a phenomenon world wide. He barely touches on the Protestant ecumenical movement...