Word: unamerican
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Though it is held on Patriots' Day, the Boston Marathon had been in danger of becoming downright unAmerican. Only one U.S. runner-Ambrose Burfoot in 1968-won the race between 1958 and 1972. In recent years, though, the American passion for jogging has aroused new interest and new hopes for a U.S. victory in the 26-mile 385-yd. race. That was evident when a record field of 1,398 turned out last week for the 77th running of the marathon. While the U.S. had such serious contenders as Olympian Jon Anderson and College Star Tom Fleming, most...
...history he embodied was a thoroughly disreputable part of the American past. It is the history of the "Red Raids," of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, of the internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans, of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, of the Hollywood Ten, of the blacklist, of "twenty years of treason...
...Your Essay [Dec. 5] said exactly what I have been trying verbally to crystallize for months. A little introspection by this country on its gut ills would do much toward world peace. Whoever promulgated the philosophy that any individual who questions the conduct and/or motives of his Government is unAmerican, pinko, etc., is in more trouble than he knows...
Draft lawyers are quick to defend their motives. Many feel that peacetime conscription is unjust, unnecessary and unAmerican. They are convinced that draft boards are often callous, bureaucratic, discriminatory-and usually ignorant of the law. Under the circumstances, they argue, a young man is perfectly justified in hiring a lawyer to protect his rights...
...nation of Stoics. From the outset, Americans have been so compulsive about winning that losing is almost unAmerican. In this sense, the U.S. is only the most extreme example of the Western trait that Oswald Spengler described as Faustian?the refusal to believe in a static order or a fixed fate. The very freedom of Western culture puts a heavy burden on losers. Western man's destiny is largely up to him?and so are his failures. The fabulous opportunities open to a new people on a new continent became the basis of a secular religion, a faith in competition...