Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious was all this press criticism against Kishi in his homeland? One of democracy's odd manifestations in post-war Japan is the way all newspapers, including the conservative sheets, are compulsively antigovernment, perhaps as a reaction to the slavish and subservient newspapers of the war years (explains one Japanese newspaperman seriously: "To do otherwise would be to act feudally...
...than mere tenacity ... I wanted to become a Jew because Judaism held an honesty and spiritual peace that was lacking in my personal makeup . . . "I became a Jew because I was ready and willing to understand the plight of a people who fought for thousands of years for a homeland, giving their lives and bodies, and finally gaining that homeland...
Town Without Trees. In the past decade, a million Arabs have huddled in camps in the Arab lands encircling Israel. They are, hostages to Arab governments' bitter reluctance to admit the existence of Israel or to prejudice the refugees' claim to what was once their homeland by the slightest gesture toward resettlement. And they are hostages also to the hard line of the Israeli government, which ingathers hundreds of thousands of Jews from all over the world but has no space to take back the Palestinian Arabs who once lived there (Israel at one time agreed to resettle...
...three daughters were born in Japan, and when Italy surrendered in World War II, he and his family, interned, nearly starved to death in a prison camp near Nagoya. Meeting is the elaborate, graceful story of Maraini's 1955 return and rediscovery of his "adopted homeland." A Buddhist scroll hanging in a friend's house provides Author Maraini with one of his key themes: "Free yourself from attachment to useless things." The Japanese mind is obsessed with the transience of things, which may help to explain both gimcrack exports and the scroll paintings of ukiyo-e ("the floating...