Word: superpatriots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passage, Cash describes in detail how as a young man Superpatriot Loeb fought repeated attempts by the draft board in Oyster Bay, N.Y., the town where he grew up, to induct him during World War II; Loeb finally won his battle when he found a sympathetic Vermont doctor who helped him win a 4-F classification for ulcers. "Loeb is a bully," says Monsignor Philip Kenney, vicar of community affairs for the ManChester diocese. "A lot of people who have been duped by him should read this book." Adds former New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson, whose teenage daughter suffered...
...Haldeman's expression hardened. Once Nixon's briskly efficient Oval Office guardian and a superpatriot who had publicly equated the acts of Viet Nam War protesters with treason, Haldeman was also pronounced guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and three charges of giving false testimony. Maximum sentence: 25 years...
...sake brewer, Sasakawa made a fortune before he was 30 by speculating in Osaka's grain and stock markets. He also was-and is-a dedicated right-wing superpatriot who decries the social changes that are moving Japan away from traditional manners and mores. In traditional fashion, he likes to boast of his conquest of more than 500 women, ranging from "a distant relative of Emperor Taisho to almost all the top geisha." His unbridled admiration for Benito Mussolini -"the perfect fascist and dictator" -lingers to this day. Indeed, Sasakawa sometimes boasts that he is the "world...
...been long since Superpatriot John Wayne, 66, recorded a pep talk for his countrymen called America, Why I Love Her. Among the numbers was The Good Things, a panegyric to the mundane virtues of American life: "A fireman who climbs a tree and sets a little kitten free," and, of course, the "men who love their wives." It turns out that Wayne's memory of the good things is faulty. His third wife Pilar, 45, will not, after all, be the girl with whom he rides into the sunset, because after 19 years of marriage and three children...
...Americans could engage in that traditional tactic known as la riposte. Comfortably embedded in the English language are many French phrases that could be driven out. In the art of politics, coup d'etat might be replaced by kayo, laissez-faire by leave it alone and chauvinist by superpatriot. In the art of love, soiree would give way to the bash, rendezvous to date and femme fatale to sexpot. As for savoir-faire-cool, man. But then, plus ca change...