Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spirit to Die For. Though nationalism of one sort or another seems ingrained in modern man, it is historically very young-dating from the 18th century American and French revolutions. In the ancient world, a man's loyalty was given to his city-Athens or Corinth or Sparta...
...minute, with smoldering nostrils, he confesses an unpatriotic passion for "Geengeair Rrrogeairs"; the next he sees a band of Fascist bullyboys drag a good man off to die. In the end he gets home to find that he has no home, that the war is not over until tyranny is dead...
Even so, the anemic National Observer, which is neither national nor much of an observer, is not likely to die an early death. It has a doting parent wealthy enough to coddle it-Dow Jones & Co.'s daily bible of the national business community, the Wall Street Journal, which since 1940 has grown in circulation from 32,000 to 812,085. Nor is the Observer a particularly expensive operation. It requires an editorial staff of 34, against the Journal's 321; it is run off on weekends on Journal presses that would otherwise stand idle. Dow Jones President...
...Nikita Khrushchev remembered it last week, Stalin warned his colleagues: "If I die, you will all perish; the imperialists will strangle you." But, added Khrushchev with somewhat muted optimism, "We aren't dead; we are living and working and even pressing on imperialism...
...critic noted, was "as though sections of [Mahler's] Das Lied von der Erde had been interpolated into the Verdi Requiem." The bells tolling for the dead in one segment of the Mass were echoed by Owen's line, "What passing-bells for these who die like cattle," while the distant menace of battle was evoked by the orchestra's strident tuba fanfare. A Latin lament sung by U.S. Soprano Ella Lee, was the refrain for the verses...