Word: patriot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the Curtain. President Johnson, full of praise, spoke at the conference, called Laurance Rockefeller a "selfless patriot," joked about the White House upheaval caused by the crusade for beauty. "This afternoon, after a particularly hectic day yesterday and after a late lunch, I went in about 4:15 to get my afternoon nap," said Johnson, "and I dozed off to sleep immediately after I put my head on the pillow. And some time or other I awakened and I could hear a little soft music in the background and a lot of conversation, and I said...
Which means a patriot must shout his message when and where...
...twenty-five years his junior. A large man with a great shock of black hair, he looked like he would have been at home in the American Senate of the last century, trading stares with Webster and Calhoun. His energy appeared inexhaustable; the roles of journalist and professor, Yugoslav patriot and international intellectual, revolutionary and humanist seemed to struggle inside him with the fervor of old and friendly competitors. The tensions were there, but they were sources of strength, not weakness...
...meantime, Dedijer the historian and Yugoslav patriot has had to come to terms with revolution in his own land. After a brilliant record as Partisan officer and member of the Central Committee of the League of Yugoslav, he was expelled from the party in 1955 for defending Milovan Djilas' right to speak. He also lost his chair in modern history at Belgrade University, and from 1960 to the present he taught and wrote at British and American universities. Recently returned to official favor, he is going back to Yugoslavia to begin a study of the Partisan...
Dedijer's return to Yugoslavia as a student of his country's past is consistent with his double role of patriot and international intellectual. He defined his book The Beloved Land as "a story of one man's destiny seen against the background of the history of his family and of his country." In his life and work, Dedijer has displayed what C. Wright Mills called "the sociological imagination"--a quality of mind which dramatically links individual and social reality. Born in a land of many cultures and ideologies, he combines within himself a series of paradoxical styles of life...