Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...18th century Poland was partitioned on three occasions, the third partition being successfully resisted for a time under the leadership of the Polish patriot Kosciuzko, only to fall to Russia, Austria and Prussia again. The Congress of Vienna gave Poland nominal independence, but after a period of "watchful waiting" the Russians were back again with a program of wholesale executions and Russification. Napoleon had used Poland ("my second Polish war") as an excuse to attack Russia, but it was Otto von Bismarck, master of Realpolitik, who saw Poland's festering hatred of Russia as a means of keeping...
...Shaw is resounding an old standard theme, he works variations-and even a fantasia-upon it. He can jiggle his royal puppet in the classic role of the Patriot King; he can even make a kind of If-I-Were-King of Magnus. The Socialist Bernard can act a Strong Man on the throne, a Passionless Shepherd in the boudoir. The disbeliever in monarchy can suggest that a constitutional monarch be flagrantly unconstitutional, and can have him retain his throne by threatening to abdicate and prove ten times as troublesome in Parliament...
...painters, too, have found in the richness of man's harvesting and handiwork a theme worth celebrating Raphaelle, Me (1774-1825), eldest son of Patriot-Painter Charles Wilson Peale (TIME, July 4, 1955), borrowed the glowing technique developed by the Dutch masters. His ready-for-eating apple, raisins and sugar-coated cake, by their closely observed rendering bring a glow of appreciation and recognition. Maine's late great eccentric, Marsden Hartley (1878-1943), with Flowers from Claire Spencer's Garden in a white crockery pitcher testified to his love for Maine more intimately and no less glowingly...
...much the book's real subject as love of Japan. The desire to evoke the spare, printlike beauty of their native land which animates Author Mishima and other leading Japanese novelists sets them apart as a special and welcome breed in contemporary writing-that of unabashed patriot esthetes who somehow manage not to sound like jingoes...
Revere glances up with the startled yet stubborn expression of Bob Hope. The patriot appears to be in the grip of some over riding idea - and the observer is tempted to ask about...