Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christian love, Eastern serenity, contemplation--they're all right, but too often you have to squeeze them into your spare time, maybe as an after thought. Perhaps religion affords an out when you're down and confused, but it hardly rates as opium for the masses anymore, if it ever...
...Council of Love is a religious farce. But the Christian satire merely provides a vehicle for Oskar Panizza to raise questions about the moralities of love and sex. Shades of evil like Lucifer, Satan or the Leviathan don't figure in this play, the concept takes on the simple form of the devil. God might as well go by the name of The Father, it's plenty descriptive and doesn't wrench a person outside the bounds of ordinary human experience. Mary, the Eternal Woman, is indeed typical, for she cannot deal straightforwardly with sexuality, and her virginity has nothing...
This does not describe and attack Leone, but rather the attitudes and behavior of both his own party and the leftists. The author accuses the Christian Democrats of fragmentation and the left of being unwilling to assume the responsibilities that accompany official power. Such a simultaneous attack on the center and the left would seem to put the author's own perspective somewhere in between, in the realm of intellectual liberalism...
...mainstay of the Italian economy, have indeed contributed to an economic boom; one which has served only to widen the gap between rich and poor in Italy. The greatest amount of American "aid" has probably been CIA payoffs, Lockheed graft, or similar bribes to the ruling political structure, the Christian Democrats. This money promptly crossed the frontier into Swiss banks. Italy is still poor, though the politicians who populate the pages of Berlinguer and the Professor are rich. Including Berlinguer...
...Italian government announced Monday that national elections will be held June 20-21, a year earlier than originally scheduled. The elections may give the Communist Party a plurality over the Christian Democrats, who have held power for the last 30 years...