Word: nationhood
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...President Carter," protested Polish-Hungarian World Federation President Karol Ripa. These-and worse-outcries, along with demonstrations at the White House gates, were raised again last week by Hungarian-Americans at Carter's decision to return the Crown of St. Stephen to Budapest. The legendary symbol of Hungarian nationhood, the priceless gold crown is fitted with rubies, and displays exquisitely detailed enamel portraits. Scholars say that Pope Sylvester II gave the treasure to Hungary's first King, Stephen I, for a Christmas gift in the year 1000. It has been stored at Fort Knox, Ky., after...
...declaring its independence, America has taken the first step toward nationhood. But even after the war is over, the final step of winning the peace may be the most difficult of all. Thoughtful Americans are asking themselves a hard question: Can America survive economically without Britain...
...power, politics−and, lately, peccadillo. Yet it stirs a sense of pride in most people; it is the only city in the country that belongs to everyone, and to see it, to wander among its monuments and enjoy its green vistas is to receive the palpable touch of nationhood. Last week TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela roamed the city on a pilgrimage of rediscovery and sent this report...
...after all, been in the magic business for a long, long time, and their claim to the copyright on Camelot is, in many ways, as enduring as it ever was. Democracies have long since learned they can live comfortably either with them or without them. But the mystique of nationhood is as elusive of definition as ever, and wherever Kings and Queens still hold scepter, if not sway, they continue to provide the sense of history and continuity that helps make diverse peoples one. That is a most uncommon, magical?and much needed?gift indeed...
...candidate for the best of American tunes those earlier years before the Civil War, when the Republic was agrarian. The existence of slavery counts against that time, but in the Republic's first days even many Southerners regarded slavery as "scaffolding" to be removed when the building of nationhood was complete...