Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alfred Neumann, 56, German poet (Songs of Laughter and Despair), historical romancer (The Devil, The Patriot, The Gaudy Empire), whose contempt for tyrants and dictators (Louis XI, Paul I, Napoleon III) caused Hitler to banish both him and his works from Germany; of a heart ailment; in Lugano, Switzerland. The Devil, an extraordinary reworking of Quentin Durward into a psychological flesh-creeper, was a bestseller of the late '20s; The Patriot, also a bestseller, was made twice into a movie (first with Emil Jannings, later with Harry Baur...
...poets. Thomas McGreevy, director of Ireland's National Gallery, thought the ideal memorial would be a retreat where poets and scholars could work in peace-a kind of "Castle in the Water" such as Yeats had dreamed up long ago with Maud Gonne, the great Irish beauty and patriot whom Yeats adored as his "phoenix...
...introduced to one of Kennedy's publicity men, who turned out to be former city editor of the Boston Post. With great enthusiasm, he began extolling his candidate's virtues, and the virtues of his candidate's mother, his brothers, and his sisters. Emphasizing that he was no "payroll patriot" the old-time city editor said he had been in political campaigns since Theodore Roosevelt's campaign as a Progressive in 1912. He confided that while the "Colonel" seldom read or wrote what was said in his press releases, Kennedy "scrutinizes everything he releases...
...extremes would inevitably threaten the moderates' freedom as well. The answer is the simple one that a democracy has always afforded to citizens: counterpressure, provided by the majority, only public realization of freedom's worth in education all public pressure to protect that freedom can rid communities of super-patriot footholds...
Guderian, now living in retirement near the Bavarian town of Füssen, has no regrets for his part in the war. As he tells it, he did only what a soldier and patriot had to do. His failures, he says, were all the fault of shortsighted and timorous colleagues and, toward the end, of a sick and irrational Hitler. But still faithful to his Führer, Guderian intones: "This sickness was his misfortune and his fate. It was also the misfortune and fate of his country...