Word: fascistes
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...film condenses these historical events into a tight drama. The key to its popularity is that it relentlessly evokes the collective political consciousness of the audience. Everybody cheers when the fascists get screwed. But the political situation in Greece today is less happy than the ending of the film. The fascists are in charge again and the leftists have been ruthlessly persecuted and tortured. A narrative at the end of the film tries to redress this ambiguity by describing the fate of the good guys during the next few years as a result of fascist persecution. It shows a list...
...POLITICAL point of view of the film is confused. Its basically anti-fascist outlook attracts liberals and radicals. But is the hero of the film Lambrakis, whose real beliefs are vaguely pro-peace and anti-status quo? Is the hero the brave judge, who with painstaking efficiency works within the system to bring down the regime? Or is it that aide of Lambrakis who calls for the people to take to the streets and bring a violent end to a corrupt regime? All these are possible according to the audience. That Z is an exciting drama and that its point...
Borges has never been a political figure, but he deplored the Nazi influence in his country during World War II. By 1946, his satiric comments on the pro-Fascist Argentine government and the accession of Juan Peron to power brought him a demotion from a state job as librarian to the post of chicken inspector in Buenos Aires. Today, at home, the aging poet's days are full of calm work and study. Lately he has received special assistance from a young American, Norman de Giovanni, who is translating all Borges' writing into English...
...automatic weapons. Their stated aim is to give the black American full pride and dignity; yet though they claim self-defense, they are committed to organized violence. In a last month issue of The Black Panther, Information Minister Eldridge Cleaver wrote: "We call for the violent overthrow of the fascist imperialist United States Government...
...militant demonstrator picketed the Coop, urging an end to the Jew-Communist-Pinko-Fascist Conspiracy and to the sale of E-Z day dry-mops and Hallmark Christmas cards. Meanwhile, pro-establishment enthusiasts hawked copies of Forbes magazine. "The capitalist tool...