Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PATRIOT CHIEFS (364 pp.)-Alvin M. Josephy Jr.-Viking...
...white man was broken. But Author Alvin Josephy Jr., a onetime associate editor of TIME and now an editor of American Heritage* is not concerned with the white man's inevitable victory but with the red man's valor in inevitable defeat. To the white pioneers, his "patriot chiefs" were hostile "bad Indians." To Josephy, they seem nine "good and brave men,'' whose profound sense of human dignity and love for their own people make them national heroes in the impartial eyes of history. Some of them were warriors, some statesmen; all, says Josephy, who knows...
...Patriot games are about this wacky. In the Pats' 31-31 tie with Houston, the following things happened: Oiler quarterback Jackie Lee completed 27 out of 41 passes for 457 yards; Charlie Hennigan of Houston caught 13 aerials for 232 yards; Garron ran back a kickoff 33 yards; Boston seemingly iced the game by going ahead 31 to 28 with 50 seconds to play; and Houston's George Blanda tied the game with a field goal as time...
Valentin Gonzalez is a legendary killer, bandit and patriot who, under the nickname ''El Campesino" (The Peasant), fought savagely in the Spanish Civil War as a Loyalist division commander. He fled to Russia when Franco won, but his outspoken bluntness was unwelcome in the Soviet Union. He was put to work digging the Moscow subway, was jailed twice and escaped to France in 1948, reporting bitterly that of 6,000 "Spanish comrades'' in Russia, nearly 5,000 had been killed. His disgust with Communism did not diminish his hatred of Franco...
BRATTLE: Last day for Vittorio De Sica's excellent GENERAL BELLA ROVERE, a film based on Roberto Rossellini's story of the conversion of an Italian pimp to patriot. Starts tomorrow: AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON, another war picture, this one Russian, and about as good as they come. Evenings at 5:30, 7:30, 9:30. Weekend matinees...