Word: anti-fascist
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...Realistically, however, the Communists still shy away from participation in the government. They fear that this would lead to a political cleavage of the country and damaging protests from the right. The neo-Fascists have been increasingly strident lately. They are generally blamed for a bomb blast at an anti-Fascist rally at Brescia three weeks ago that killed seven people. Said Social Democrat Flavio Orlandi last week: "Our economic crisis is worse than Britain's because in Britain, an authoritarian alternative does not exist. In Italy, an economic crisis on such a scale can become a crisis...
...other language, and much of it is highly political. Jorge Luis Borges, the white haired patron saint, set the stage for the whole flowering by modulating European tradition into a distinctively South American voice, giving South American writers a new self-confidence. While he remains a grand old anti-fascist liberal, most writers of subsequent generations have been more or less socialist. Some, like Pablo Neruda, put their life and art wholly at the command of the movement they support; some, like Jose Lezama Lima in Cuba, have differed with the revolutionists after giving them initial support; some, like Garcia...
Brecht's theme was the revolutionary farmers' takeover of what was best in the past, its songs and the belief in personal and communal dignity that lay behind them. So he showed the roots of the farmers' anti-fascist slogans and collective ambitions in simple, legendary stories, and the way the values of the stories made the anti-fascist slogans make sense, like Azdak's Solomon-like decision that Grusha keeps the governor's child because she won't try to pull him from a circle in a tug-of-war with the governor's ambitious widow. As a result...
...else. Partner, in particular, which obliterates its source with such effectiveness--and to such little artistic effect--contrasts strongly with The Conformist, for which Bertolucci reordered Alberto Moravia's novel in order to rebuild it on the strongest of visual terms. In The Conformist, Bertolucci presents the same anti-bourgeois, anti-fascist feelings that make up the moral tone of Moravia's novel; in Partner, there is no moral stance aside from the platitudes uttered...
...post is named after an Italian liberal who died in an airplane crash while dropping anti-fascist pamphlets on Rome in the 1930s. The Italian government claims de Bosis' plane ran out of gas, Prodi said...