Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! is an honest and lyrical, sentimental and humorous account of a young Irishman's preparations to leave his homeland for America. A uniformly excellent cast is headed by Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, who play the hero's inner and outer selves...
...lives of nearly all of them are woven into the texture of this delicate, homespun comedy by the late Yasujiro Ozu. Virtually unknown in the West, Ozu died in 1963 as Japan's most honored film maker, a man whose gentle art was eclipsed outside his homeland by the blazing, exportable genius of Kurosawa...
...first half-decade of the "Thousand-Year Reich" -- nine of the vignettes were cut out of this production. Not all of the episodes are little masterpieces, but at its best the play, with its violent juxtapositions of theatrical styles, is a nightmare vision of the author's homeland going off its collective...
...people fleeing Castro's Communist dictatorship. The flights are now up to two planes a day, five days a week, and the Pan American DC-7s bring their full load of 95 passengers. In the first 24 days of the lift, some 2,500 Cubans left their unhappy homeland. Less than half settled in the Miami area, which already has 100,000 Cuban refugees. The rest of the newcomers went to other cities throughout the country...
...Poland is 96.5% Catholic, and Cardinal Wyszynski was greeted on his return from Rome by a rapturous crowd of 1,000 at Warsaw's Gdansk Station. Another 10,000 jammed St. John's Cathedral to hear him proclaim: "We served our homeland well in Rome. Anything else you hear you can put down as a fairy tale. Treat it as the leaves dropping from the trees." He was besieged afterwards with bouquets and hymns...