Word: antifascist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd cold until a label was attached explaining it as "anti-war." Since then, it has been a favorite. Likewise, Peter Blume's surrealistic The Eternal City, in which a bust of Benito Mussolini peers balefully across the Roman Forum, got low marks until it was labeled "antifascist...
...famed Doria family, which traces its history to 12th century Genoa, owner (in Rome's Palazzo Doria) of one of the world's most celebrated private galleries (included: Velásquez' portrait of an earlier Pamphilj, Pope Innocent X); of arteriosclerosis; in Rome. A bitter antiFascist, who condemned Mussolini's war on Ethiopia, he suffered 15 years of mistreatment by Fascists, became wartime "underground governor" of Rome and, appointed by the Allies, the city's first postwar mayor...
...Teutonic. But readers will find grim, retroactive amusement in Author Kirst's account of the hasty changes made in a German town as U.S. tanks approach: an old Nazi triumphantly reveals that his housekeeper is half Jewish; panicky Gauleiter and Kreis-leiter are sheltered in hospitals; a satisfactory "antifascist" working man is thrust into jail ("Wouldn't you like another blanket, Herr Freitag? Two more perhaps?") in the hope that the American conquerors will rescue him and make him burgomaster...
...fiery and excitable Sicilian of tradition, but deliberate and controlled to the point of pedantry. "He's one of those rare Sicilians who doesn't need to use his hands when he speaks," says one colleague. He and his family were well known as antiFascist, but medical skills were needed, and he worked in a navy hospital during World War II. At war's end Dr. Martino entered politics by joining the revived anticlerical Liberal Party. As vice president of the unruly Chamber of Deputies, he showed surprising skill at handling Communist quibbling and obstructionism...
...recent times for his shifting and often unsavory political alliances with both Fascist and Communist causes. In Strange Deception, Malaparte, who now claims to have renounced all forms of politics, has made a completely unpolitical movie which he describes as "a Christian film." It is neither pro-nor antiFascist, neither pro-nor antiCommunist; instead, with an almost religious fervor, it voices a profound compassion for the sorrow...