Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "You once forged the most perfect alliance of nations in the world's history for the salvation and vindication of democracy in the greatest of world wars . . . Even as President . . . yours has always been the soldier's way . . . You have been the true patriot, and in our time, fust in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of your countrymen . . . You have held the flag aloft in the dark night of war and the dreary day of its aftermath...
Mind's Eye. If Twain the patriot was a cultural absolutist, Henry James the expatriate was a cultural relativist, full, as he put it, of "the baleful spirit of the cosmopolite-that uncomfortable consequence of seeing many lands and feeling at home in none." The virtue of that defect, as James saw it, was tolerance. Compared to Twain's polemic, The Art of Travel, Critic Morton Dauwen Zabel's splendidly edited sampling of James's travel pieces on England, France, Italy and the U.S., is sunny-tempered and severely self-controlled...
Justice Minister: Michel Debré, lawyer, Senator of France, longtime Gaullist and fire-breathing patriot. Hates the idea of European integration, was French delegate to the Strasbourg Assembly, where he blasted the plan for a European free market and the joint use of atomic power. Snapped Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "You suffer from delusions of grandeur inextricably entangled with an inferiority complex." Debré is suspicious of U.S. intentions in North Africa ("The U.S. appears on the scene only when there is a profitable investment to be made or a strategic base to be established"), wants Europe...
...creature is in the habit of becoming a woman at night." Her name was Emilie Cordier, and she became pregnant just before the fishing smack ran into Giuseppe Garibaldi, then busy invading Sicily with his famed "Thousand." Forgetting the Orient, Dumas and the expectant admiral hurried to the great patriot's aid and helped storm Palermo, Dumas wearing "an immense straw hat with three plumes...
...feat was routine for the Patriot Ledger (circ. 44,349), which has its own U.N. correspondent, staffed the Olympic Games in Australia, and sent its own reporter to cover the 1955 summit meeting in Geneva. But the fast footwork of Editor John R. Herbert and staff also typified the vitality of middle-sized dailies across the nation in a David-Goliath competitive struggle that is fast transforming the U.S. press...