Word: patriots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arabs of the region. And while he has on mistakes made by the Israeli government, he is equally critical of the inflexibility and militance of Arab leaders. Halabi criticizes Israel not with the haughty condemning tones used by the likes of Anthony Lewis, but with the anguish of a patriot who sees his country violating many of its most cherished ideals...
...intertwining themes in the movie center around the search for Charlie Horman and the relationship between the stuffy, Christian Scientists Lemmon, and the freewheeling, impertinent Spacek. A devout, almost chauvinistic patriot when he first comes to Chile, spouting idioms attesting to the greatness of the American Way, Lemmon slowly hardens to the cold reality of the American Way abroad, as he learns that the U.S. government may have been responsible for not only the revolution itself, but for his own son's death as well...
...surprise of many Westerners who knew him well in the past, Rakowski has become an ardent defender of the repression that began on Dec. 13. Is he a patriot who truly believes the crackdown will save his country from chaos? An idealist turned pragmatist who hopes to preserve some of the reforms won before the declaration of martial law? Or is he just an opportunist enjoying his place at the fulcrum of power? Those who know him well agree upon only one point: Rakowski is a survivor...
...legends, even if fraudulent, that grew up around his life? The eyewitnesses in the movie Reds, men and women who knew either John Reed or his wife, give a sensuous picture of what life must have meant to a man who graduated from Harvard and died a Russian patriot. But it's almost a shame Walter Lippmann himself couldn't be there to tell all interested about the life of his college friend. One can only think that Walter Lippmann himself might have been the best eyewitnesses for Reed's life from the day both of them walked into Harvard...
...attempt to find quislings in the Solidarity leadership had apparently failed. So had overtures to the intellectuals. Nor has the church been an ally. The general seemed condemned, at least for the present, to rule by force alone. It was an ironic mission for a self-pro claimed patriot who had once vowed never to use armed might against his own people...