Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sinatra. His frequent concert tours of Communist countries draw S.R.O. crowds; his songs, which frequently blend Marxist-inspired lyrics with twanging strains of the Nashville sound (one big hit: War Goes On), sell in the millions. Last week the 40-year-old singer gained a new notoriety in his homeland; he turned up as the focus of the Kremlin's latest effort to get back at the U.S. for Jimmy Carter's criticism of the repression of Soviet dissidents...
Fitzsimmons and Sheehan were barely a second apart, coming home fourth and fifth behind Providence's all-American Dan Dillon and his Irish teammate Redmond Treacy, a former junior nation team member in his homeland. Meyer captured ninth, running his best race in several outings...
...week unfolded, John Paul was greeted by exuberant well-wishers ?among them 5,000 Polish pilgrims allowed temporary visas out of their Communist-ruled homeland. With a gifted preacher's polished delivery, the Pope addressed the throngs fluently in five languages, then plunged into their midst to shake outstretched hands. For Vatican and Italian police, the public appearances were a security nightmare. For officials of the papal household, they were also somewhat of an embarrassment: the Pope's white cassock sleeve cuffs sometimes became covered with lipstick marks...
...unrestrained good will was just as visible with world leaders. When John Paul held a private audience with Polish President Henryk Jablonski, he reportedly won assurances that his homeland's doors would always be open to him. With France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the new Pope spoke of world issues and of the universality of faith. With an envoy of Lebanese Maronite Rite bishops, he presided over a lengthy audience and told reporters later: "A visit to Lebanon could be very useful. But above all we must find a solution. My heart is very troubled by Lebanon...
Argentina is a country rich in every thing but stability. The nation has been so cursed by bloody political convulsions that its own best people have pro nounced their homeland incurable. Julio Cortázar's novel, A Manual for Manuel, is one Argentine expatriate's eccentric response to violence in his country (and to some extent Uruguay and Brazil) in the early 1970s. Cortzar, who has lived in Paris for some decades, writes in a surreal fashion. The effects can be dazzling - as in All Fires the Fire and Other Stories of several years ago. Here...