Word: jingoism
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...some, these remarks may smack of religious jingoism, but we feel it is past time for American Catholics to be relieved from the oppressive burden of our Spanish brethren. We have spent weary hours cleaning up the blood the Spaniards overzealously spilt in the Inquisition. If they wish to call the cops on the Protestants four centuries late, they can take the blame themselves...
...Army," gritted Manhattan's Daily Worker last week. Wallace's announcement that he supported U.S. intervention in Korea (TIME, July 24) hastily set the Worker revising its estimate of the man it had long considered the world's second greatest statesman. Its new verdict: "Shabby jingoism...
...permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but never have to dismantle. Because "he has had full access to captured enemy documents and has used them with imaginative skill as well as care, his accounts of battle action have a quality of two-sidedness which dissolves crude jingoism. In Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, as in his three earlier books (Battle of the Atlantic, North African Waters, Rising Sun in the Pacific), readers will be aware every minute that the enemy was in there too, and doing well...
Tito carefully fosters this jingoism. Sound trucks in every village spout nationalist propaganda. Grade-school readers contain pictures of rifles, tanks, and airplanes. All young Yugoslavs are compulsory members of Tito's National Youth Organization, where they get technical and military training. Ascetic discipline is rigidly preached and enforced (sexual promiscuity is almost as serious an offense as a weakness for capitalism). Martial virtues are also inculcated. For months after the German surrender, female partisans were allowed to carry hand grenades at their sides (until one exploded during a jitterbug session...
Last week Mack, complaining that he had "been in the hands of others," announced a new strategy for giving away $25,750 a year without getting slapped for doing it. Pepsi's 1946 contest will have a new name: "Paintings of the Year" (to avoid the taunts of jingoism that "Portrait of America" got); a new director: balding, milk-mild Roland McKinney, ex-director of Los Angeles' County Museum. There will still be plenty of prize money ($15,250), but also seven "fellowships in painting" ($10,500), so that winners can go and do better...