Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connolly and Christopher Isherwood, watched the rise of Nazism and Fascism in Europe with equal horror and fascination. "This was one of those intervals of history," Spender writes, "in which events make the individual feel that he counts...
...surrounded. His sophomore history tutor, he says, is a Marxist. The tutor is quoted as uttering such realistic phrases as: "Jesus, how heavy, how heavy, how incredibly relevant and heavy," and, better tailored to LeBoutillier's needs: "America the Beautiful my ass. It should be America the home of fascism...
COMMUNISM When Italy's Communist leader, Enrico Berlinguer, made a peace bid to the church last October, Luciani wrote: "At the time of Fascism people said, 'The difference between the Soviets and the Fascists is that if you have five cows, the Soviets take four and leave you one. The Fascists leave you all the cows, but they come and milk then all.' I'm afraid that tomorrow we'll be able to say something similar: 'The Communists of the Soviet Union rob you of al most all your freedom. The Italian Communists promise...
...pure show biz; he's so agog he might as well be describing the career of Judy Garland. By the time Evita dies of cancer at age 33, we know she's a "legend," but we have no idea of how to judge her: to Rice, fascism seems to be more a cultural style than a political ideology. Elaine Paige, 30, the heretofore unknown actress who plays Evita, does little to help. Her clarion, belting voice has made her a star overnight in London, but she is a strident actress who fails to convey Evita's erotic...
...ordained a priest in Brescia Cathedral. Dispatched to Rome for graduate work, he became a Minutante-document writer in the Vatican's Secretariat of State. He also served as a Chaplain to students at the University of Rome, among whom he fought the tide of Mussolini's Fascism, and his work with them won him the title of Monsignor...