Word: patriots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill Russell, 44, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and partner, with Chilean-born Art Dealer Guy Burgos, in Manhattan's Burgos Galleries: Edwin Russell, 52, publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News; on grounds of extreme cruelty, after 23 years of marriage, four children; in Reno...
...Dame Rebecca West. Her studies of such traitors as Lord Haw-Haw, Klaus Fuchs, Pontecorvo and the Rosenbergs, explored the wide range of motives that can impel a man to betrayal. Sometimes, as in the case of Lord Haw-Haw or Fuchs, the traitor is distinguished from the patriot mainly by a loyalty turned upside down. Sometimes the reason is outside compulsion: John Vassall, a homosexual in the British embassy in Moscow, claimed that he turned informer under threat of exposure by the Russians...
...Foot on the Gas. Strong images refract strong emotions. Voznesensky is wildly excited by "godless/ baseball-crazy/ gasoline-hazy/ America!" A passionate patriot, he is also a ferocious critic of Communism. In a horrendous poem printed in 1963, he likens the relation between the Russians and their rulers to that between Peter the Great and one of his mistresses. Having cut off the poor wench's head, the czar snatched it up again by the hair and then, according to eyewitnesses, kissed the bloody carrion passionately on the lips. Unlike Evtushenko, however, Voznesensky is not primarily a political poet...
...East Room, "to honor a very brave American soldier. The acts of extraordinary courage to which we pay tribute were not performed in hope of reward. They began with a soldier doing his duty-but went so far beyond the call of duty that they became a patriot's gift to this country...
...claims that he can't sleep properly in San Francisco because of "something in the air." He is the grand master of his trade. He is the stay-at-home who plays for hours at a time with his three daughters. And he is the fervent Dominican patriot who cannot wait to return home when the baseball season ends, and who bought a full-page ad two weeks ago in the nation's biggest newspaper, urging his countrymen to vote in the presidential elections...