Word: patriotes
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Snow characterized Tizard as "a patriot in the way of an English naval officer," an amiable, brilliant man "with the face of an intelligent and sensitive frog." "About Lindemann," however, "hung an atmosphere of indefinable malaise." He had, Snow said, the inflated passions of a character in Balsao's novels...
Clearly, this boy had had his expectation cycle quickened by years of following New Trier High School games, and could not bring his accelerated expectations into focus with a new reality. With plenty of care and a season ticket to this year's Boston Patriot home games, Raver was given a new lease on life. His progress has been slow but steady, and he will someday be a useful citizen...
...Brendan Behan) seems much less a play than a dramatization of its playwright: sprawling, shocking, howlingly off-key, marvelously in tune, humane and hilarious. What story there is turns on a young English soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin brothel against the Belfast hanging of an Irish patriot. Under Joan Littlewood's brilliant direction, this proves story enough to provide a real center of feeling among all the vaudeville tricks, freak-show tactics, music-hall gags and ditties that stuff out the evening. As the whores and queers and strangies cavort, as irreverent lyrics make butts...
...Says one of his associates: "Asking Gomulka to be reasonable and listen to advice is like asking a bear to be good-natured.") Bit by bit, the liberties of Poland's people have been curtailed, and the world has learned that though Wladyslaw Gomulka may be a Polish patriot, he is, above all, a dedicated Communist...
...said, and even the famous art circle he helped found in Brussels-Les XX, the most avant-garde bunch of its day-was sometimes too shattered by his paintings to exhibit them. As for the critics, they were perpetually outraged. "Mere daubings!" complained the Gazette. "Come, come," cried Le Patriot, "it's garbage...