Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Verrocchio's workshops, to the awe of his master, Leonardo's genius unfolded. He learned in a few months almost all that Verrocchio could teach, and soared on through other arts and sciences. He soon played a lute, his countrymen said, more wondrously than any man alive; and the Florentine scientist, Paolo Toscanelli, found the country boy his most precocious pupil...
...fact did little of later importance, he found himself worshiped as the saint of the Risorgimento. Garibaldi and Cavour paid him homage. And at his death in 1873, Giuseppe Verdi set to work on his great memorial, the "Manzoni" Requiem, and in heartfelt words spoke for his countrymen: "With him ends the purest, holiest, and highest of our glories...
Back home at week's end, in his first radio address since his election, Churchill sought to disabuse his own countrymen of any romantic illusions they might have about his U.S. trip. Said he: "You must not expect the Americans to solve our domestic problems for us. [No one] is going to keep the British lion as a pet." Nor should the Tories themselves be expected to turn on prosperity overnight. "Unpleasant" measures will be needed to deal with "stern and grim facts." The Conservatives, said Winston Churchill, will need "at least three years before anyone can judge fairly...
...Marshal Rommel, the new film's hero is no Nazi who turned against Hitler too late and for the wrong reasons. He is a sensitive young Luftwaffe medic (Oskar Werner) who becomes a U.S. spy out of convictions that outweigh his queasiness at being pitted momentarily against his countrymen...
...Sussex Garden. Hilaire Belloc, now 81, has spent a long and distinguished career living up to his countrymen's expectations about hyphenated Englishmen. Though he has lived in Sussex for 46 years, he insists that he always feels like a Frenchman there, and that it is only by crossing over to France that he can feel like an Englishman. An ardent Roman Catholic, he has treated the Church of England not as a holy keystone of British tradition but as a disastrous heresy. And finally, while he has pleased the British by insisting that he is a mere "hack...