Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main reason for the Communist decline seems clear: the rank and file are unhappy over Berlinguer's strategy of sharing power with the Christian Democrats in the so-called historic compromise. By pledging parliamentary support to the Christian Democrat-led coalition, the party had to share the blame for the government's failure to deal effectively with such problems as inflation and unemployment. As a result, working-class support for the Communists has fallen off, especially in the big cities...
...power-sharing policy also led to disenchantment among younger voters, who gave their support to far-left radicals. In Palermo, an analysis of the June 3 vote showed that the Communists' heaviest losses came in districts with large numbers of young voters. By linking up with the Christian Democrats, concluded Massimo D'Alema, head of the party's youth federation, "we lost credibility for the P.C.I, as the party of freedom. We managed to look at the same time both impotent and Jacobin...
...bitterly assailed the present leadership at last April's party congress. Cossutta and his allies want the P.C.I, to return to militant opposition, which would mean the use of strikes and labor unrest to bend the government to their will. Should the Communists decide to break with the Christian Democrats and go into permanent opposition, the hard-liners stand to gain power within the party...
Berlinguer's policies, however, still enjoy support among party moderates, who feel that the historic compromise has not yet been given a fair trial and that a total rupture with the Christian Democrats would destroy the party's only chance of whining real political power through the democratic process. Berlinguer himself has suggested a re-evaluation of the historic compromise, but it remains central to his strategy, and he will ultimately have to answer for it before the party's Central Committee. The committee meets later this month to conduct its own investigation of the elections...
...most elaborate Gothic structures to the smallest Christmas trees, individuals constantly attempt to fill in blank spaces and correct eccentricities. Some of the book's conclusions are debatable: "There are no laws imposing the same aim on any artist working at a given time ..." The Renaissance of Christian art would seem to refute that thesis; the poverty and angularity of urban environments surely have their influence on children who have to go to museums for anything more baroque than an equestrian statue. Yet even when he is perverse, Gombrich stimulates and entertains. His own volume is an imposition...