Word: patriotism
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Merle Haggard has also played the embattled public patriot. To many Americans he is still most famous for his song Okie from Muskogee. It burst on the nation in 1969, when the hippies were beginning to lose their charm and hardhats and other members of the so-called silent majority were beginning to find more and more solace in the Nixon Administration...
Newspapers know that making heroes sells copy. Three weeks ago, for example, you could not find a major newspaper or news magazine which did not show the morose portrait of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn staring ominously from its front page. We were presented with a hero--the all-American Russian: a patriot, a defender of the free press, an anti-communist, an international celebrity. But in three weeks, Solzhenitsyn has disappeared from the media. I would not be surprised if Gulag Archipelago gets bad reviews...
...their self-styled civilizers, not least upon his beloved Ireland. As far as his abilities were concerned, Casement was the kind of man who in other times and circumstances might have been an explorer, poet, or U.N. Secretary-General. As it turned out, this proud and eventually demented Irish patriot was hanged in London at age 51 as a wartime traitor to the Britain that he condemned as an illegal occupying power...
...last weekend, the whole league knew better. Gaining 219 yds. the previous Sunday on a snow-covered field against a special six-man New England Patriot line-designed to stop O.J. -Simpson pushed his 1973 yardage to 1,803. As he looked toward the final game against the Jets, O.J. was all confidence. "Hey, man," he said, "you know I'm going to do it." Indeed, Simpson kept his word by running his total yardage of the year...
...shouting: "I am going to get some gas even if I have to kill somebody." In Hanford, Calif., a station owner who had closed at the President's call found that a competitor across the street was open on Sunday and doing a hopping business. So the patriot hauled out a pistol and shot up six of his rival's pumps...