Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pound's essay is more than the customary diatribe by a self-exiled literary rebel against America's cultural bourgeoisie. Years before he turned renegade to his nation to back Fascism, Pound had a profound sense of America's vigor and promise. He could sound paternally tender of its youth ("America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation . . .") and he could grow lyrical, in his strangely dissonant way, over a New York crowd-"a crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd...
...only woman who sits at the oval luncheon table is Correspondent McCormick, whose first contribution to the Times was a poem for which she got $3.50. Her second, written from Italy in 1921, was a comprehensive account of the rise of fascism and helped win her a job and a start on the career that has raised her to topmost bracket among foreign political correspondents-male or female...
...will sometimes pay as high as $10 a week to a contributor of a weekly column, but it pays nothing for articles. The lure to writers is complete freedom to have their say and veer as far right or left as they wish, provided they are still short of Fascism or Communism...
...time Covella reached the final chorus-"and for Benito Mussolini, hooray, hooray, a la la"-the police had rushed from the back of the theater, stormed the stage and bound him with handcuffs. The defiant singer was hustled off to jail under a postwar law against "defense of fascism...
When the 1948 Bollingen Prize for Poetry went to Ezra Pound, longtime tub-thumper for MusSolini and fascism, there was a literary and political furor from Bangor to San Diego, and a joint congressional committee abolished all further Library of Congress awards. Last week, the $1,000 award's new trustees at Yale University announced the winner for 1949: Wallace Stevens, 70, vice president of the Hartford (Conn.) Accident & Indemnity...