I'd agree, with one caveat: Holbrook applies none of Bean's clouding sentimentality and propensity to perpetuate myth for nationalistic end.
But for "old" terrorist groups, terrorism has historically been used selectively, as a means of getting a place at a negotiating table to achieve nationalistic, ethnic or ideological ends that are geographically circumscribed.
Can a tonality be political?" I raise the nationalistic peroration at the end of Meistersinger, but Thielemann leaps on me.
Throughout the crisis, North Korea has been playing on themes -- sometimes ham-handedly, sometimes more subtly -- that are meant to woo a South Korean public that seems increasingly nationalistic, and yearns for reunification and an end to the cold war in Korea.
But nationalistic thrills are notoriously difficult to shepherd toward positive ends.
To his horror, he then discovered that fascism was still alive in the postwar East End world in the shape of crudely nationalistic newspapers, bookshops, debating societies and even itinerant gangs.
He began a fourth ministry in March 1911, during which he bowed to nationalistic pressures and began the Italo-Turkish War (1911 12), which ended with Italian possession of Libya.
My question was: Would this guy actually do something, or would he keep looking and not perform his duty?" A decade after Tito's death in 1980 came the years of bloody conflict that sundered the former Yugoslavia, and the authoritarian, nationalistic rule of Franjo Tudjman, Croatia's first president, which ended in 1999.
We sense this necessary German anxiety when Erpenbeck, in her introduction, commends the novel's impartiality, reminding us that it is "in no way a work of nationalistic nostalgia" but, instead, "makes us feel the weight of these end times beyond all political affiliation".
