Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enshrinement a Revolutionary leader can hope for is to have a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike named after him. "Exit 12--Benjamin Franklin Rest Area," the tribute would read, and as we drive in to have our HoJo Cola we give thanks to men like the Pennsylvania patriot whose crucial historical role guaranteed to a future generation the convenience of easy on, easy-off roadside concessions. And such a memorial would well suit the way in which our leaders today conceive the role of the Founding Fathers. In Ford's words last Friday, 200 years ago there began...
...back pages of national-circulation magazines are starting to push "Boston--this summer! The Bicentennial City! Where it all began!". I remember my shock my first Patriot's Day when a man in knee-breeches and a tricornered hat almost ran me over as he urged his galioping steed down Garden St And that was nothing compared to this year--as the Boston area museums are all too happily reminding us this week...
...Front has named itself after Augusto Cesar Sandino, a Nicaraguan patriot who alternately battled, defeated and eluded U.S. Marines in the hills for seven years before he was tricked and murdered by the original Somoza in 1933. The Marines, sent to enforce Nicaragua's payment of loans held by North-American banks, were not the first imperialists to interfere in Nicaragua's affairs...
Disinclined as one may be to take exception to Washington sources, I must disassociate myself from the remarks attributed to me in TIME'S March 10 issue. General Brown is a dedicated officer of excellent professional judgment as well as a patriot and gentleman. Had I the view erroneously ascribed to me of General Brown, he would not have become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
...GULAG ARCHIPELAGO by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A passionate and excoriating account of the evolution of Soviet injustice by a victim (and patriot) who praises (and personifies) "the fearlessness of those who have lost everything...