Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros to express his feelings about his native Rumania during the 1930's when his countrymen increasingly fell under the spell of fascism. The play is certainly a tract against conformist and the inhumanity it produces, but it goes far deeper than simple propaganda. If the various townspeople who rationalize and stumble their way into the rhino herd are absurd, Ionesco says, so is Berenger, the one man who holds out. His defiant profession of faith in humanity is farcical rather than heroic, showing that individuality in an indifferent universe can be as futile as conformity...
Perhaps he has trouble inspiring his soldiers Ironically, these tribesmen-the Meo-occupy a place in the hearts of their Laotion countrymen similar to the place in the hearts of white Americans occupied by the black and brown men who do so much of their country's fighting...
This is not to say that all Laotian generals are so corrupt and hypocritical. Some of them are quite fired up about "following orders" and contributing to the genocide of their countrymen. One has been faithfully utilizing CIA funds and personnel for eight years, training tribesmen to fight other tribesmen trained by the North Vietnamese...
...Szczecin Gierek met the workers' committee in an extraordinary session that lasted from early evening until 2 a.m. the next day. Carefully Gierek called the rebels "rodacy" (countrymen) or "stare pierony" (old mates), rather than "towarzysze" (comrades), a word that Gomulka used in addressing nonparty members as well as Communists-an offense to many of the former...
FINLAND. Like most of their countrymen, Finnish Communists have learned to keep a wary eye on their giant neighbor to the east. The party has long taken Tito-type stands critical of Moscow's policies and was one of the most vocal protesters against the Czechoslovakian invasion...