Word: patrioteer
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Hopes for Peace. Now, more than half a century after the Revolution, this is the era of what the party calls "the new Soviet man." The Bolsheviks would hardly recognize him. He is not a liberal democrat, but he would like to be a consumer. He is a patriot, even a chauvinist, but he is friendlier to foreigners than his police force appreciates. He probably does not want to read The Gulag Archipelago even if he could, but he thought Arthur Hailey's Airport, a bestseller in the Soviet Union, was fascinating. He drinks too much, his government says...
...turns out that for all of his hard-talking, pulling-no-punches image, Jimmy Breslin is a bit of a sappy patriot. He gets some good, sentimental Irish teardrops in his eyes when he thinks of how the United States pulled thgough Watergate and came out stable and stronger than ever. In his castigation of the Bad Guys and his adulation of the Good, Breslin expresses what a lot of Americans who never thought of themselves as particularly patriotic felt in the heat of last summer's battle. His identification with O'Neill is nearly complete, and he respects...
...next seven years, four of them in solitary confinement, Mindszenty was released by freedom fighters in the 1956 uprising, but the arrival of Soviet troops force him to flee to the American legation in Budapest. Citing what he regarded as his duty as prince primate and as a patriot to remain in his homeland, Mindszenty stayed there for 15 years, writing, studying, and celebrating mass daily. He resisted the Vatican's pleas that the he leave until in 1971 a detente-minded President Nixon joined Pope Paul VI in asking him to leave. An embittered Mindszenty surrendered, entering into exile...
...enshrinement a Revolutionary leader can hope for is to have a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike named after him. "Exit 12--Benjamin Franklin Rest Area," the tribute would read, and as we drive in to have our HoJo Cola we give thanks to men like the Pennsylvania patriot whose crucial historical role guaranteed to a future generation the convenience of easy on, easy-off roadside concessions. And such a memorial would well suit the way in which our leaders today conceive the role of the Founding Fathers. In Ford's words last Friday, 200 years ago there began...
...back pages of national-circulation magazines are starting to push "Boston--this summer! The Bicentennial City! Where it all began!". I remember my shock my first Patriot's Day when a man in knee-breeches and a tricornered hat almost ran me over as he urged his galioping steed down Garden St And that was nothing compared to this year--as the Boston area museums are all too happily reminding us this week...