Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mihaly (not Mihail) Igloi will become an American citizen this month, and one need only look at his results since coming to our country to see that he has already done a truly great service for his new homeland...
...fire they themselves ignited. Sashaying toward the Champagne Room of the Manila Hotel in the Philippines. Eugene Burdick, 43. and William J. Lederer, 50. authors of The Ugly American, were refused entry because they were wearing Bermuda shorts. Squawked Lederer: Bermuda shorts are the national costume of his homeland-Hawaii. Answered the assistant manager: "Hawaii is part of the United States, and I didn't think Bermuda shorts were the national costume there." Miffed, Lederer threatened to write a letter of protest to the Philippine foreign office...
Real Dialogue. With S.A.O. permission, European labor leaders announced their eagerness to enter "into contact" with the F.L.N. The S.A.O. secret transmitter broke into regular radio programs with the statement: "Peace can return to this land only on condition that all those who consider Algeria as their real homeland agree among themselves." The S.A.O. announcer sneered that De Gaulle and France were no longer important since, after Algerian independence, they were "going away." The real dialogue should be between the S.A.O. and the F.L.N. as a means of "giving back to all Algerians a homeland, of bringing back fraternity...
...that he was expected to appear. From his retreat at Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov, 63, sent his answer in the form of a letter to the London Times. "In the same list," said the strongly antileftist Russian émigré who left his homeland in 1919, "I find several writers whom I respect but also some others-such as Ilya Ehrenburg, Bertrand Russell and J.P. Sartre-with whom I would not consent to participate in any festival or conference whatsoever." Besides, said he, "I do not believe in abstract discussions on the novel...
Over the past month, British guards have turned back some 60,000 refugees,* but an estimated 10,000 others slipped through the cordon-in overwhelming, living testimony against the Communist regime that rules their homeland...