Word: fallaciousness
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...learned since his brutal death--what was coincidence, what was inevitable. Part survivor, part vindicator, the narrator mentions herself infrequently and addresses the reader just once. This is no one's story but her lover's, a story so great, teaching a lesson so timeless, that Oriana Fallaci uses classical Greek tragedy as her literary foundation. Full of prophecy, fatalism and resigned sadness. A Man mourns the inexorability of both love and destruction...
...Fallaci's intention to involve the reader emotionally in Alekos' experience; A Man is not a human drama but a lesson--a lesson that torture is a reality; a lesson that individuals who will not surrender to society will by destroyed by it; a lesson that evil corrodes the left as well as the right; a lesson that freedom is a dream. Fallaci has addressed these in the past, raising them as issues during her interviews, but here she illustrates them in grisly detail: the knitting needles up the urethra, the backstabbing by old friends, and the corruption at every...
...after an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the dictator, and they shuttle him from torture center to torture center until they reach his place of captivity, a cell only large enough for two steps in one direction. When he is released, he meets the narrator, a character clearly based on Fallaci herself, an international political reporter who has covered revolutionaries from Bolivia to Vietnam. While imprisoned, Alekos had spent hours teaching himself Italian (he went on hunger strikes to obtain the books) so he could translate her works into Greek (more hunger strikes to obtain these as well...
Some of the programs have already been tested successfully in Sichuan, the country's most populous province, under the governorship of Zhao Ziyang, 61, who is Deng's choice to replace Hua as Premier. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, published in the Washington Post last week, Deng conceded that his program may well bring in "some decadent influences of capitalism, but I think that this is not so terrible." In any case, Deng added, "capitalism is superior to feudalism...
...been downgraded since his death in 1976, Deng said that "we shall not do to Mao what Khrushchev did to Stalin." But Mao's "unhealthy thinking, ultra-leftist ideas, and patriarchal behavior" had led to the Cultural Revolution, "a civil war in which many people died." When Fallaci suggested that more people died under Stalin than during the Cultural Revolution, Deng responded: "I am not sure about that. Not sure...