Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene is a poor, bedraggled Dublin district during the doomed 1916 Easter Week Rebellion. O'Casey had no illusions about that sadly absurdist affray. Commandant Jack Clitheroe (Clive Geraghty) of the Irish Citizen Army is a crackbrained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. The Dublin tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable souls, passionately unified by a nationalistic cause...
...England's rise has been as stunning as it was swift. The Patriots had not enjoyed a winning season since 1966. After a dismal three wins and eleven losses last year, Quarterback Jim Plunkett-the 1970 Stanford Heisman Trophy winner who was supposed to parade the Patriots to glory-asked to be traded to a California team. Patriot fans, sensing that the RENOVATIONS UNDER WAY sign might hang for years longer, responded by planning to stay away from Patriot games. Result: season-ticket sales dropped by 10,000, and first-game attendance was the lowest in the team...
...testimony of opponents is that Patriot blockers do far more. Neither Oakland's defenders nor Pittsburgh's Fearsome Foursome were able to dump...
...young man from Ottawa, Kansas (pop. 11,000), resembles none of these demigods; yet he has already begun to exert his own spell on the Hub, its congeries of suburbs and that state of mind known as New England. For beneath his placid exterior, a competitive fire burns. Says Patriot Coach Chuck Fairbanks, who saw it early: "His eyes light up when it's time to play...
...Lennon the long-sought green card bearing permanent resident No. A17-597-321. "It's great to be legal again," said John, whose problems with the Immigration and Naturalization Service dated back to a 1968 conviction in England for possessing half an ounce of hashish. Like a true patriot, Lennon immediately promised to dedicate himself to "wife, kids and a job" and then gave a big kiss to his Mrs., Yoko Ono. "As usual," John noted, "there's a great woman behind every idiot...