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Patriotism is just as important as ever. The problem is in defining it-and few definitions are so elusive. It consists of three distinct but interrelated emotions-love of country, pride in it, and desire to serve its best interests. The love is easily traced to man's natural affection for his particular home, language and customs. The word patriotism comes from pater, Greek for father, and means love for a fatherland. From the love flows pride: the firm belief that one's country is good and perhaps superior to all others-a pride not only...
...tolerate "the spread of liberalism, pacifism, recklessness and frivolity." Toughening Up. Last week Novotny's regime moved to take away some of the prerogatives that it had granted Czechoslovakian industries earlier this year. By giving factory managers the power to reinvest their profits-rather than having the government do it-and by allowing prices for wholesale goods to rise, the regime had hoped to encourage more efficient investment and make the economy more responsive to consumer demand. But prices soared far above the anticipated levels, and industry made profits a bit too easily. The economy thus suffered...
...students' real aim is to escape embarrassment and pain. By contrast, before he gets to school, Holt argues, a child has "a love affair with life." In fact, his attitude toward everything in the world about him is to "taste it, touch it, heft it, bend it, break it-and he is not afraid of making mistakes...
...already a fact. In London, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin went so far as to urge sympathy for "people who are struggling against the dictatorial regime of Mao Tse-tung." Everyone knew that the Russians felt that way, but it was the first time that a ranking Soviet official had said it-and in a capitalist capital, of all places. Russia and China canceled their longstanding agreement permitting citizens of each nation to visit the other without visas. China actually dared Moscow to break diplomatic relations. Urged Peking Radio: "Do it quickly! The Chinese people have made all preparations...
Some Can't Take It. The course is especially tough on business executives. "They are ordered about as if they were children," explains Huarte, "although they are accustomed to giving orders." Berlitz candidly tells a company when its execs can't take it-and refunds the tuition. Engineers and teachers are also troublesome because "they always seem to have to know the whys and wherefores," which the Berlitz instructors consider irrelevant...