Word: damnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friend Betrayed. The relations between Thomas and Alvero are poisoned, for the King appoints Thomas the Grand Inquisitor of all Spain. Absolute power corrupts him absolutely. He has caused heretics to be burned before; now he accepts the King's commission as a mandate for an anti-Semitic holocaust...
That legacy was the product of a man whose personality and ideas still surprise both his critics and his friends. Far from being a socialist left-winger, Keynes (pronounced canes) was a high-caste Establishment leader who disdained what he called "the boorish proletariat" and said: "For better or worse...
The pre-Keynesian "classical" economists had thought of the government too. But almost all of them had contended that, in times of depression, the government should raise taxes and reduce spending in order to balance the budget. In the early 1930s, Keynes cried out that the only way to revive...
Girlish glee goes with grim ideology in Bettina. "Everyone said we were finks for supporting Johnson in 1964," she says, but Communists had to back L.BJ. because "Goldwater was a neofascist." Now she says that "President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara and the whole damned Administration are hypocrites and...
Through this frail plot, described as "a fairy tale for adults," Fellini parades a gallery of grotesques both sacred and profane: whores, prophets, shrouded nuns, epicene cultists, damned maidens ablaze, sundry vile bodies and Freudian symbols on horseback. All are flamboyantly colorful creations. And a few of the film'...