Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notified its linen subscribers that "since Thursday, April 19, 1962, is a holidays (Patriot's Day) according to Teamsters Union standards, linen delivery in Dunster, Kirkland, Leverett, and Lowell Houses will take place on Friday afternoon this week only...
...when ragged irregulars blew up barracks and bridges and battled England's Black and Tans, the rebellion bred more than enough heroes and martyrs to fill all the pedestals that remained when the Irish finished dynamiting English statuary. It boasted as many wits and eccentrics, from the unknown patriot who dubbed Queen Victoria "The Famine Queen," to Robert Bolton, who escaped from Dublin's Mount joy Prison after leaving a note explaining politely that the accommodations were below his accustomed standard...
Rolfe's line of defense is familiar: he sets forth a mythical combination of patriotism and ignorance of the consequences, to justify Janning and millions of others. Rolfe recalls: "the statement, 'my country right or wrong' was made by a great American patriot. It is no less true for a German patriot...." then, "it is not only Ernst Janning who is on trial here. It is the German people...
...terror tactics. Last October, Godard was picked up in an Algiers street for carrying false identity papers. At the central police station, he privately told a top cop: "I know you and you know me. I'm Colonel Godard. I appeal to you as a Frenchman and a patriot to let me go." The policeman...
...honored at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art with the first one-man show of a living artist in the museum's history; of a stroke; in South Bend, Ind., where he was resident sculptor at the University of Notre Dame. A devoted Yugoslav patriot, Mestrovic was jailed by Fascists during World War II, exiled himself when the Communists took over...