Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspiciously: "Are you from the State Department?" But most of the time, the Russian sense of humor, which is generally left at home by everyone, poured out uninhibitedly. At a street festival in the city's principal Italian colony, for example, the group was confronted by an earnest patriot who was trying to pin small American flags to the blouses and lapels of everyone in the jammed crowd. One Russian boy let himself get pinned. Others laughed at him. With a grin, he turned the lapel over, exposing a metal button with a picture of Nasser...
Died. General Dusan Simovic, 80, iron-willed Yugoslav patriot who led a valiant 1941 coup d'etat that overturned the pro-Nazi regency of Prince Paul for 17 brief days just before Hitler invaded, later headed Yugoslavia's wartime exiled government in London; in seclusion in Belgrade...
...past-the American past-was the achievement of crisp, eloquent Howard Mumford Jones, 70, Harvard's Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the humanities. A former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jones spoke out sharply against McCarthyism in the 1950s. It was a patriot's protest; few scholars are so enamored of U.S. ideals. Author Jones (The Pursuit of Happiness), who will lecture at M.I.T. this fall, is convinced that "Americanists" have one of the toughest fields around-a thicket of North American lore, its European roots and all of South America as well...
...progress (TIME, May 11), they presupposed the blind acceptance of a benumbed and be-numbered public. They were wrong: the telephone company is now facing a minor rebellion. In San Francisco last week the Anti-Digit Dialing League was incorporated to oppose "creeping numeralism." And an anti-digit patriot in Santa Rosa, unwilling to surrender one more word for three more numbers, cried: "Give me LIberty or take the blinking phone...
...sermon is a kind of good-tempered antinomian tract, expressing a universal and perfectly justified skepticism about mostly everything. And there is entirely too much tolerance for the skepticism to ever become bitter. The most biting sketch in The Black Book is a caricature of a red-neck super-patriot Wildcat--"It's people like me what come from old stock that knows a Real American from a Phony--that's where the government breaks down--they got too many card-carryin' spies feedin' off our tax money." But even this ridiculous, blustering monologue is more in fun than condemnation...