Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acidulous prime, almost everybody had something to say about the country's most controversial neWWs-boy. To Ed Sullivan he was a "cringing coward"; to the California American Legion he was "America's No. 1 Patriot." Ben Hecht said he wrote "like a man honking in a traffic jam." H.L. Mencken lauded him as "an assiduous inventor and popularizer of new words and phrases." Lord Mountbatten and J. Edgar Hoover wrote him fan letters. Ethel Barrymore wondered, "Why is he allowed to live...
...reflecting the view of Poles in general-have found that it is possible to live with Gierek's moderate regime. Stage Director Kazimierz Dej-mek has returned from exile and is again in favor; he was disgraced in 1968 for putting on a heavily anti-Russian production of Patriot-Poet Adam Mickiewicz's 19th century play Dziady, which included the line "The only things Moscow sends us are jackasses, idiots and spies." Writer Stefan Kisie-lewski, who was severely beaten in 1968 for calling the government "a dictatorship of dimwits," has been allowed under Gierek to travel abroad...
...been a prisoner of war for more than four years. The other young man chose to desert the Army rather than serve in Viet Nam. It is apparent that this war, whatever its effect on Indochina, has hurt our country terribly. I am still enough of a patriot, even a chauvinist, to feel that when we begin the restructuring of our society, America will need all her sons...
...they were charismatic: Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammed AH Jinnah, Jawaharlal Nehru. Another name now seems likely to join that list: Sheik Mujibur ("Mujib") Rahman, the President of Bangladesh. To his critics, Mujib is a vituperative, untrustworthy rabble-rouser. To most of the people of his new nation, he is a patriot-hero whose imprisonment by West Pakistan has only enhanced his appeal. "He was a great man before," says one Bangladesh official, "but those bastards have made him even greater...
...quite 20 years after Stalin's death, a Soviet scholar has produced the most comprehensive and revealing investigation of Stalinism ever to appear anywhere. Roy Medvedev, 46, is a schoolteacher turned historian. Like his twin brother, the prominent geneticist Zhores, he is a dedicated Communist and patriot, who believes in Marxism-Leninism and its vision of the future.* When he set about writing Let History Judge, Medvedev was motivated neither by disillusionment with the Bolshevik experiment nor by a desire to discredit the present regime. What he wanted, instead, was to enlighten fellow Soviet Communists about 50 years...