Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moles of Fate. The legendary patriot leaders of Greece's struggle for independence from Turkey-Theodoros Kolokotronis and Petrobey Mavromi-chalis-campaigned from the Mani. Indeed, Mavromichalis was a Maniot who, in countless forays against the Turks, lost 49 relatives. He nailed the heads of Turks whom he killed around his own tower until it was studded with skulls. In the light of their rebel heritage, the Maniots of today are remarkably royalist. In private homes, Fermor found pictures of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika right next to those of George VI and Elizabeth...
...contrasting twin giants: John Gielgud, whose melodious, grief-numbed Hamlet was this generation's finest, and Laurence Olivier, whose body English makes him Shakespeare's Angry Young Man, forever Hotspur, whether he is a sinuously satanic Richard III, a black-as-thunder Macbeth, or a plangent patriot King, Henry V. Not far behind these triumphs are Maurice Evans' sterling-silver-tongued Richard II, Ralph Richardson's roguishly intelligent Falstaff and Michael Redgrave's mettlesome, love-ravished Antony. They are the leaders of today's functional Shakespeare, in which action flows naturally along the firm...
...Advance, Jamaica (N.Y.) Long Island Press, Newark Star-Ledger, Long Island City Star-Journal, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Post-Standard and Herald-American (Sunday), Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot and News, Jersey City Jersey Journal, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Huntsville (Ala.) Times, St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
...patriot who kept his country firmly aligned with the West, Menderes had driven his country so close to ruin with showy projects ranging from dams to mosques that he had to be repeatedly bailed out by U.S. money. A onetime democrat, he had become so iras cible under criticism that he had progressively choked the press and whittled away at freedom of speech for opposition politicians...