Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked for a delay "until the day when our people have driven off the U.S. imperialist aggressors and completely liberated our fatherland." Since that day does not seem imminent, even to North Viet Nam's intransigent leaders, Ho must wonder, at 77 and in none-too-vigorous health, whether he will ever wear Moscow's medal...
...symbolism, the national heroes, the sacred founding documents, the optimistic faith in progress-all these unified and inspired millions of uprooted immigrants in an often frighteningly free society. The mood filled a basic human need: never do men so long to belong as when they give up one fatherland for another. Conversely, the U.S. proposition was freedom from orthodoxy. There was not-and is not-any one perfect Americanism. Not in a country that cherishes diversity as a national virtue...
...distinct but interrelated emotions-love of country, pride in it, and desire to serve its best interests. The love is easily traced to man's natural affection for his particular home, language and customs. The word patriotism comes from pater, Greek for father, and means love for a fatherland. From the love flows pride: the firm belief that one's country is good and perhaps superior to all others-a pride not only in the country's objective worth but because that worth enhances...
...patriotism "the most certain death of Christian love." There is no question that chauvinism-hyperpatriotism-can be induced in any country, including a democracy, where truth may be a poor competitor in the marketplace of ideas. A tragic example is Germany, where Nazi excesses in the name of the fatherland left such scars that today patriotism is for Germans an embarrassing idea...
Communism's first 50 years must be judged primarily by its effects on "the fatherland of socialism," by the way in which it has affected Russian life and Russia's attitudes toward the rest of the world. TIME here examines five im portant facets of that life: 1) whether the revolution has lived up to its own promise, 2) what effects Communism has had on the Russian character, 3) the quality of life in Russia today...