Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daily newsreels are shown in a small theater whose entrance has been reconstructed from fragments of Trans-Lux newsreel theaters in New York and Washington; during the opening weeks, films from the '30s will feature clips of Hitler addressing his countrymen. Vintage radio sets play actual news broadcasts; H.V. Kaltenborn's reports from London crackle from a 1939 RCA portable. Similarly, major television news stories are rebroadcast, ranging in time from celebrations of the conquest of Japan to the conquest of the moon. Once each day, a duplicate of the compact Apollo 11 TV camera will be demonstrated...
...known as one of the world's more fractious peoples. The Knesset is a turbulent forum for their divisions, as are their newspapers, despite official censorship of anything involving "state security." Moreover, Orthodox Jews, who represent about 25% of the population, are often pitted against their secular-minded countrymen in both matters of law and face-to-face encounters. Regardless of whether or not he is a believer, in matters of birth, marriage, death or divorce, an Israeli Jew is totally subject to the rulings of rabbinical courts. In the Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem, home of many ultra...
...nation's 400,000 Arab citizens, though largely impassive, have reason to feel the same way. Although constantly subject to the subversive propaganda of Palestinian liberationists, they have remained, as a group, remarkably loyal to Israel. The Arabs even have a better voting record than their Jewish countrymen (85% to 82%) and occasionally volunteer for military service (though they are never drafted). Their per capita income has quintupled since 1948 (to about $1,000), and their literacy rate has jumped from 4% to 85%; yet they remain a wholly separate and unassimilated segment of Israeli society...
...readily attainable by any other occupational group in our society. Indubitably this in itself has become a source of contention between the doctor and his patient, paternalism being the most definable of the malignant outgrowths. The modern American doctor commands salaries way beyond those of virtually all of his countrymen, and he consequently maintains an otherwise inaccessible elevation in social status. But these are only the symptoms of our veneration for our medicine men. It is the very nature of the physician's work, that of healing and life-saving, that has made him the subject of the reverence...
...mansion in Barcelona. Picasso also decreed that his famed mural Guernica, which has been on temporary loan to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art since World War II, be returned to Spain when civil liberties have been restored. Last week, as Spain mourned him as its own, his countrymen expressed regret that Picasso had not ensured that more of his major works would one day be seen in his homeland...