Word: facism
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...USED to be that political scientists found it was pretty simple to sketch a diagram of the spectrum of political systems and beliefs. You drew a straight line: to the extreme left was communism, to the extreme right facism. The happy medium, not surprisingly, was Western-style democracy...
Malle's new film, My Dinner With Andre, seems to turn the same trick, but with a more highbrow audience in mind. For over two hours, two men comment copiously on the human spirit, the state of art and theater, life, death, Nazism, facism, and the '60s. But when dinner's over, and the tables are cleared off, we're left with just another period piece, this one for the 1980s...
...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...
...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...