Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Criticism from his countrymen is something South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky can answer or ignore -as the mood moves him. But crit icism from the U.S. is always a bitter pill. Last week Ky refused to swallow it. "If by the standards of a country with long experience in democracy, our elections still present serious shortcomings," he wrote to his detractors in the U.S. Congress, "I am the first Vietnamese to deplore that situation. But I can say without any doubt in my conscience that my government does not deserve any lesson in honesty and patriotism...
...Germans, the Danish underground boldly thwarted the Nazis. Within two weeks 8,007 Jews were smuggled into Sweden; the Nazis snared only 460-of whom 400 survived in the Theresienstadt concentration camp largely because of continuing Danish political pressures. Clearly, the rescue of the Danish Jews by their fellow countrymen stands among the few bright moments in the dark night that fell upon European Jews...
...restive, unpredictable mood. Its distemper infects an already cantankerous Congress, heightening the impression of drift and disarray in the nation's capital. In times past, the one unifying force in such a period of malaise has been the presidency. Yet Lyndon Johnson seems strangely insulated from his countrymen's doubts and fears...
...temples and emerald valleys, ruled by a Dragon King whose subjects dress like Renaissance page boys, Bhutan relished the role of the world's last Shangri-La, and kept a closed door to foreigners. As a result it preserved a way of life indistinguishable from that of its countrymen a thousand years...
...reason Western critics may have cottoned to Ikeda sooner than his countrymen is that his art is frankly influenced by the West. He works only in red, blue, yellow and black, partly because Piet Mondrian used these colors...