Word: facism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flies. Neruda never claimed to inhabit a special world for poets divorced from the struggles and the suffering of ordinary people. The son of a railway worker killed in a fall from his train, Neruda lost the consulship accorded his early poems by declaring Chile opposed to facism in Spain without waiting for his government's instructions. In 1944, the nitrate miners of Antofagasta asked Neruda to run for the Chilean Senate, where he served for four years. In 1948, unwilling to refrain from criticizing an American-supported dictator, Neruda was forced to go underground. For several months miners...
...amplify this view, Herrnstein later notes that "not only the vulgar accusations of 'racism' and 'facism,' but also the political paranoia can be found in both the Russian and domestic Marxist reactions to the application of biology to the study of man..." He compares current radical views with those of T.D. Lysenko, a Russian anti-geneticist...
Beginning at ten in the morning the public--from the National Association of Theater Owners to the Students Against Facism--trooped into Galnor Auditorium at the State House to spend ten minutes or so selling the Commission how to run cable TV. Almost to a man they were there to tell the Commission how to make cable TV best serve their own special interest group...
...UTOPIANISTS, as a group, used the hearings in denounce the present cable system. The more radical among them, such as Students Against Facism, opposed cable systems in any form, contending that they would eventually be used for police surveillance via two-way TV. The other group of UTOPIANISTS saw the cable as the coming savior of society. People like Ralph Lee Smith, author of The Wired Nation, believe that the technology of the cable can be exploited to allow people to have (for instance) the resources of Widener Library available at the touch of a button or to have...
...kind you get when you see a fascist behind every rock. I know quite a few people who count themselves as politically active, and to a man (or woman) they're all a touch paranoid. But to call Alice Cooper and their ABC-WBCN simulcast a harbinger of creeping facism, as Andrew Kopkind did in last week's Phoenix, strikes me as so much hysterical over-reacting...