Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAMES ROBINSON SHEPLEY, who became the youngest chief of the Washington bureau, TIME-LIFE'S largest, in 1948 when he was only 30, will succeed Laybourne as chief of domestic correspondents. Jim Shepley cubbed on the Harrisburg Patriot, edited by his father, was a United Press correspondent in Washington before he joined TIME as a Washington reporter in 1942. He covered the China-Burma-India. Southwest Pacific and European theaters in World War II, later served as military aide to General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army. He was back in civvies only a short time...
Humane societies objected not only to a lion tamer's use of a chair to prod a bored lion, but to the TV appearance of rabbits who looked vaguely unhappy. A civilian patriot thought that spoofs of barracks life on Phil Silvers' You'll Never Get Rich were tearing down the fabric of the armed forces. When a character in a drama announced that he would forgo his M.D. ambitions and settle for becoming a chiropractor, howls arose from chiropractors. Securities dealers and the New York Stock Exchange itself kick at the sight of a shady stockbroker...
...portrait by Ralph Earl*of Connecticut's Roger Sherman (opposite), once a shoemaker, later a lawyer, and the only founding father to sign four historic documents of American independence: the Association of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution. Earl sat the awkward, clearheaded patriot in a Windsor chair as foursquare and unyielding as himself, threw a harsh, searching light on the stubby workingman's hands, which seem to regret having nothing to do, on the brow square-cut as a headstone, on the weary, wise button eyes, plow nose, sickle mouth, Gibraltar...
...even the Egyptian embassy questions the Pasha's honesty. Syrian and Egyptian broadcasters have shouted "Traitor" and "Satan," denounced him as a stooge of the British and an Ottoman-style tyrant. He pays no heed. Every Iraqi knows how a half-century ago Nuri leagued with the Arab Patriot Jafar al-Askari to conspire against the Ottoman Turks, then fought on camelback for Emir Feisal in World War I's revolt in the Arabian desert...
...well as the talk of Paris, Dutourd's book does not explain anything-it merely accuses. Zola himself might have been proud of its polemic passion; few Americans will fail to be moved -or to understand France better-reading this cry from the heart of an enraged patriot. On Dutourd's lips, the famed French proverb becomes: "To understand all is to forgive nothing...