Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert J. Seymour, executive editor of the Harrisburg Patriot (circ. 47,866) and Evening News (circ. 71,893), defended the decision: "We felt our readers would best be served by a full and complete story at the end rather than by whatever bits and pieces we could have picked up at the time." Many of his colleagues disagree sharply. Jim Snavely, a reporter for the Daily Record (circ. 36,001) and president of the Newspaper Guild local, is asking his membership for a resolution condemning the blackout. Daily Record Managing Editor Eli F. Sliver, one of those present when...
...line of scrimmage, you've got the New England Patriot's aggressive, loud, and confident quarterback who can deftly read defensive formations, call his own plays and execute them gracefully. At home, you see a man of few words, who matter-of-factly offers you a Michelob in a quiet and self-conscious manner...
During his first year with the Pats, he earned Rookie-of-the-Year honors. And, of course, he's been instrumental in leading the young Patriot team to a possible shot at the Super Bowl this year. He is ranked third in the NFL efficiency ratings with a passing record of 53 per cent--180 attempts and 96 completions for 1366 yards with 14 touchdowns...
...intelligentsia. These past years have really been difficult ones, a period of belt tightening and building, building, building from scratch. The only country that came to our assistance with concrete, tangible help was the Soviet Union, and I am not saying this as a Communist, but as a Polish patriot. Now Poland ranks tenth in the world in terms of industrial output. But at the same time our country has a lot of shortcomings and some neglect in its infrastructure. We are now working to overcome these difficulties...
...whom life is a hard and marginal struggle, who care little about current events. They are not to be despised; their loyalty and sense of duty is such that they faithfully serve, or send their sons off to fight in wars they do not necessarily understand. Such unthinking patriotism is generally considered a right-wing manifestation, though right-wing is too political a term for so apolitical an attitude. Still, the passive patriot when aroused is a person to be feared: in troubled times-having earlier ignored the flow of political argument-he stirs to the noisy rhetoric of demagogues...