Word: fatherland
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...Chief Charles Eisendrath, seem as loyal as ever, willing to follow el Líder virtually wherever he takes them. But the leftists, who include many youths barely born when Perón was ousted by a military coup in 1955, are relying on him to create a "socialist fatherland." They give indications that they may settle for nothing less. "Perón promised youth a revolution," warns Ernesto Giudice, 65, a member of the relatively conservative Communist Party's central committee. "If he doesn't transform society quickly and fundamentally, youth is going to do it-with...
...believe in an enchanted fatherland is to risk the trap of national incorruptibility. Many a nation has followed an imperial "destiny" to holocaust and self-destruction. Some of those countries have produced the very hordes who fled from jingoism and flag raving to America. They looked to the New World as the antithesis of the old one, a land where an individual could be more than a soldier in the unholy forced march to empire...
...significant for its battlefield successes or failures than for the fact that it has returned an important North Vietnamese presence to South Viet Nam for the first time in more than two years. Radio Hanoi was openly urging its forces on. Said one florid broadcast last week: "From the fatherland's heart, blood keeps pouring south. Like a huge army, the entire nation is going south through the mountains and the jungles to the front...
...novel is divided into three parts, the first of which is a third-person expository account of Comrade V.'s opprobrious persecution at the hands of a nameless fatherland. A celebrated mathematician, by dint of his liberal political positivism, V. is incarcerated in an obscure "large building, a few versts east of the capital." Seated in his sterile cubicle V. watches a diffraction of his own life-history pass by on a computer print-out sheet which appraises us of his peculiar character. A child mathematics prodigy, he had successfully voided people from his world-scheme...
...sitting yoga-style, with begging bowls in outstretched hands. The Greek Orthodox Church in Athens has adopted a new prayer entitled "For Those Endangered by the Touristic Wave." The words: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on the cities, the islands and the villages of our Orthodox Fatherland, as well as the holy monasteries, which are scourged by the worldly touristic wave. Grace us with a solution to this dramatic problem and protect our brethren, who are sorely tried by the modernistic spirit of these contemporary Western invaders...