Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some...
That kind of patriotism permeates the colonial press nowadays. Almost without exception, newspapers are either militantly pro-Patriot or studiously neutral on the issue of independence. One of the last openly Tory publications was the venerable Boston News-Letter, which died last February shortly before the British evacuated that city...
...staid, prosperous New Haven lawyer, Trumbull has printed (anonymously, to be sure, although his authorship is already known), a second and even more surprising epic satire. He has not been an incendiary Patriot by any means, yet the new burlesque...
Trumbull stages his Tory sticking at the town meeting of an unnamed New England hamlet where, in traditional fashion, citizens "met, made speeches full long winded,/ Resolved, protested, and rescinded." Independence is the subject under debate, and the battle is between the virtuous Patriot Honorius and the affronted Royalist Squire M'Fingal. Honorius is too admirable to be very interesting, and the author devotes most of his attention to M'Fingal. The squire, writes Trumbull, is so perceptive that "not only saw he all that was,/ But much that never came to pass," adding slyly that the squire...
When the Continental Congress included a ban on theatrical performances in its 1774 resolution against "every species of extravagance and dissipation," it seemed for a while that the delegates had unwittingly aided the enemy. Patriots felt bound to observe the ban while British occupying forces ignored it, thus turning the theatre into a vehicle of Loyalist propaganda. In Boston, for instance. General John ("Gentleman Johnny") Burgoyne transformed Faneuil Hall, the Patriot meetinghouse, into a playhouse. There he mounted productions of his own works, notably the scurrilous anti-American satire The Blockade of Boston. (Justice was poetically served, however, when...