Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enraged gadfly, Rudofsky thinks American city streets are now and always have been ugly, dirty and unfit for human habitation; and he offers fascinating pictures, mainly from Europe, to show how things could be improved. Rudofsky's pet hates: noise, cars, haste, uniformity, ugliness, greed and his fellow countrymen's habit of suggesting that criticism is unpatriotic. What he wants more of and thinks feasible are steps, arcades, automobile-free streets, covered sidewalks, plazas suitable for strolling...
...factor: some 226,000 Yugoslav "guest workers" who are admitted to labor-short West Germany for two-or three-year stints. Over glasses of slivovitz in grimy bars, during friendly talk in homes, and in full-fledged secret political gatherings, Yugoslav exiles try to spread discontent among their visiting countrymen. Their hope, of course, is that the workers will form an anti-Tito underground when they return home...
Cynical Jeers. Médici was almost unknown outside the army. Three weeks ago, when he went on television before 90 million countrymen with the pro forma promise to see "democracy definitely installed in our country," Brazilians responded with cynical jeers. "In the U.S.," went one gibe, "there are general elections. In Brazil, the generals elect...
Except in art and conversation, blandness is not a mortal sin; and even in politics, charisma is not always a virtue. Nkrumah and Sukarno stirred the blood of their countrymen, but they very nearly ruined their countries. Two of the most persuasive leaders of the 20th century were also two of its greatest monsters-Hitler and Mussolini. Particularly in advanced nations, the leader who governs by emotion and style is apt to be regarded as a dangerous indulgence, one that people with stable institutions should not hanker...
...historic conflict between the highest white American ideals and the requirements for Indian cultural survival. For nearly a century, the American dream has been a composite society in which arriving immigrants, eager to be assimilated, dropped their old folkways in favor of the means provided by their adopted countrymen. Until just lately, American rhetoric glorified the melting pot-and assumed that it was working. Then blacks, who could not really be assimilated because of their color, and some whites who gave thought to the strength and vitality lost with the old ways, began to complain. Indians, Deloria says, have always...