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...precisely because direct democracy is such a manipulatable sham that every two-bit Mussolini adopts it as his own. Pomp and plebiscites. The Duce and the people. No need for the messy stuff in between. Not for nothing did the Founders abhor direct democracy. They knew it to be a highway to tyranny...
...security ultimately proved chimerical -- is a tragically familiar tale, with more than its share of ironies. Strange as it may seem now, a substantial minority of Jews welcomed Benito Mussolini's accession to power in 1922. He promised order in a land threatened by leftist chaos, and il Duce's brand of Fascism did not become ideologically anti- Semitic until he fell under Adolf Hitler's political sway during the mid-' 30s. To many Jews, patriotism became a near substitute for faith and for the ancient rituals they infrequently observed. Such was their loyalty to their homeland that...
Specifically, the revised legislation bansfederal funds for art works that "promote,disseminate, or produce duce obscene depiction ofsadomasochism, homo-eroticism, the sexualexploitation of children, or individuals engagedin sexual intercourse...
...propagandist, at her villa near Munich, discovered a well-coiffed blond who had just returned from scuba diving in the Caribbean and looked 20 years . younger than her age (87). Leonora Dodsworth tracked down Edda Ciano, Mussolini's eldest daughter, at her elegant apartment in Rome. "She has Il Duce's baleful glare and obviously still adores her father...
...reputation as an artist has badly suffered from his devotion to Fascism: he stayed loyal to Mussolini right through to 1943. The figure on horseback in The White Horse and the Pier, 1920-22, draws on Italy's long history of equestrian hero images and may refer to the Duce. Nevertheless, as painting, Sironi's dark, emphatically delineated compositions, with their massive figures and Brunelleschian weight of architecture, are often quite superb, a reminder that you cannot necessarily judge an artist by his or her political ideology...