Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...cynical. While I have faith that the nicks on the face of America are not scars but scratches--and that scabs heal unless irritated--I wonder at the wisdom that will make many 19- and 20-year-olds "aliens" in their own country. President Carter's appeal to the Fatherland for his legitimacy evokes historic appeals to the Motherland. It's too bad you have to fight irony with irony. --L.S.G...
...from Goskino [the centralized film bureaucracy]; in America it would be the producer. But as far as I am personally concerned, if I have to be financially dependent, I would prefer that I not be dependent on one or two producers but on what is called the fatherland. I just try to do my job as honestly as possible...
...question is whether "honesty" and "fatherland" are, in the U.S.S.R., irreconcilable enemies. Soviet film makers work under many ideological restraints -some subtle, some blatant-that began with a five-year plan set down by Goskino. Like the production schedule of an oldtime Hollywood studio, the code calls for production funds to be divided among pictures in a variety of genres. But the genres in question touch on themes that only an apparatchik could love: tales of young workers and peasants heroically exceeding their quotas...
Naipaul looks out over the fertile pampas and sees degeneration and illusion. Even Argentina's most famous citizen, Jorge Luis Borges, "a great writer, a sweet and melancholy poet," is seen as clinging to a bogus past of noble battles fought for the establishment of the fatherland. Meanwhile, the sons and daughters of settlers from England and the Continent live behind the façade of European culture and are slowly brutalized...
...been a combined act of violence by one set of people upon another set of people that has not been perpetrated in the name of patriotism." Patriotism is both indispensable and extremely dangerous, involving always the hazards of the self being ceded to the larger purposes of the fatherland. Hitler had a sinister little instinct for patriotic sentiment. Patriotism, or a debased form of it, raucous with jingo and the bully's knuckles, has led the U.S. astray from time to time; citizens hounded German Americans during World War I, for example. They did idiotic and ominous things-fulminating...