Word: patriots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Righteousness. After leaving the Navy in 1977, he helped found the Coalition for Decency, which tried to clean up television by urging boycotts of sponsors. When elected to the Senate last fall, he was relatively unschooled in politics. Denton ran in order to speak his deepest beliefs as a patriot, a Roman Catholic and a father of seven, and he refuses to compromise them...
...make the squad, then I'll look for an apartment." Brian Buckley isn't taking any chances. He knows the odds for an 11th round draft pick. so the Harvard and perhaps New England Patriot quarterback is keeping his options open...
...sociology paper. But the intelligentsia seems determined to alienate this source of support. The Real Paper, for example, which is very big on women taking back the night and happy to see people marching for justice in El Salvador, decided to interview State Rep. Marie Howe, an Irish patriot recently returned from a trip to Ulster. The paper asked her, among other things. "Wasn't the trip itself mainly a publicity stunt?" "Did you present yourself primarily as a Massachusetts legislator?" "It's clear you support the IRA, but do you think their terrorist activities are justified...
...ours: whether the world is spinning into chaos, or, after a long penance, tapping the divine. That question, which now as then elicits all the varying strategies of self-defense--embarrassment, indifference, and dogma--has rarely been asked with greater dignity." Channing was not a tub-thumping, rabble-rousing patriot, nor is Delbanco a wide-eyed and vociferous liberal. Like his subject, he asks what it means to be an American, and successfully depicts the miracles and misfortunes...
...starve and the young drink too much; where a black market in gasoline, used cars and objets d'art overmatches its Western counterpart; where suicide is disguised-who would take his own life in paradise? Yet it is also a place where dissidence is the badge of the patriot, and protesters underline Maxim Gorky's observation: "The Russian people ... learned to make sorrow a diversion ... made a carnival of grief; a fire is entertainment; and on a vacant face a bruise becomes an adornment...