Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the recent books about Tolstoy have emphasized his old age-as dean of Russian letters, Christian pacifist, anti-patriot and abysmally unhappy husband. Tolstoy As I Knew Him, published in Russia in 1926 and now fully translated into English for the first time, has the charm and importance of showing him in the full flush of youth, when he most delighted in the very things which he later renounced. A glimpse of the Czar, "sitting so handsomely on his horse," could make him feel "clogged with tears"; and " [life's] greatest happiness," he still believed then, "Iies...
...revolution and the war of independence went on simultaneously, the war in the strategy of the armies, the diplomatic deals in France (very fully treated in this volume) and the actions of Congress taken by the colonists as a whole; the revolution in the property seizures of the patriot committees, the defiance of the riflemen to their officers, the punishment visited on Loyalists or near-Loyalists by vigilant rebels...
Sacha's chauffeur was told to drive back to town. At the Place Bellecour, on the site of a monument to the Resistance, he was made to get out of the car. Said a patriot: "On this spot six of our men were odiously assassinated by the Nazis. If you did not know it, now you do. Take off your hat and observe one minute of silence." Clenching his teeth, Sacha complied. Notoriously fond of talking, he was silent for an entire minute. His captors took flashbulb pictures which turned up in the Lyon newspaper Le Progres. Humiliated...
...take the place (now renamed Puebla de Zaragoza), drive Juárez to the Rio Grande border, and install Maximilian as Mexico's emperor. But Mexicans had learned the meaning of the Cinco de Mayo. "You have fought the first soldiers of the day," said a patriot to the ragged victors of Puebla, "and you have been the first to conquer them...
...observance of Patriot's Day and the opening of Suffolk Downs, there will be no CRIMSON Monday...