Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charges that members of the Navy ROTC program have been forcibly "volunteered" to march in the Patriot's Day parade at Concord on Friday were vigorously denied yesterday by ROTC commanders and students alike...
Student officers added that "no one was being forced to do anything" and that the ROTC departments were merely trying to be of help in the Patriot's Day celebrations...
Died. Oskar Helmer, 75, Austrian patriot and former Interior Minister (from 1945 to 1959) a courageous pro-Western Socialist who firmly purged the police and security forces of Communist agents during the post-World War II occupation, thereby helping to avert a Czechoslovakia-style Red takeover of the country; of cancer; in Vienna...
...mark them recognizably as first and second books, but they are rich with life and intelligence. Underground City, set in France during the Resistance and the early postwar days, is, notably, the only novel in memory that achieves both dignity and passion in dealing with the predicament of the patriot who is not a flag kisser. Men Die, which is concerned with race hatred and other crippling manias, is audaciously and successfully arty. The central incident of the book is an explosion that wrecks a Caribbean naval base. Humes's time sequence begins with the detonation and is hurled...
...years of starved winters and bloody springs wore on, each of the living had his dead. Bitterness between frontiersman and Indian, and between patriot and Tory, passed the bounds of sanity. West of the mountains, there was general approval when a frontiersman who had been living with the Indians murdered his Cherokee wife and children to get the bounty payment for their scalps...