Word: fascistes
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...looks like Vietnam. One day soldiers arrive (conspicuously similar to American G.I.s) and destroy the village. She flees through the jungle and across the sea. She arrives at a modern city with dark, bedraggled citizens under constant surveillance. She meets a street musician, who after being arrested by the fascist police force, leaves her with child. At the end, the cry of the newborn continues the father's song...
...child of a middle-class Viennese Jewish family, Lerner was a teenager when the fascist regime came to power in Austria in 1934. She became engaged in the underground student resistance movement, but when the Nazi takeover later forced her and her family into exile, she alone escaped to the U.S. to join the radical leftist party and embark on her academic career...
...cold war. When the Long War finally ended, with the reunification of Germany and the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, we thought we would have peace because we had resolved the question that bound all these wars into one: What form of the nation-state--fascist, communist or parliamentarian--would succeed the imperial states of the 19th century? When this was answered by the triumph of parliamentarian democracy, some thought the "end of history" had come, that the struggle to achieve a final constitutional order had ended...
...become more cynical. The theme of the book seems to be peoples' need for "heroes," or rather, their mindless need for leaders. There are few heroics in this supposedly "superhero" book. Even Superman, famously incorruptible, undergoes a massive change of character that, at the end, turns him into a fascist. Seeing Miller handle characters this way has the same empty appeal as watching a sandcastle get kicked over. The Batman of the first series personified a man on edge: cruel yet tempered by a personal sense of justice, a master of his body yet feeling the limitations of getting older...
...maker has come about due to the appeal of its anti-immigrant, fear-mongering messages in places like the Gard. Last month, as law and order obsessions turned the presidential race into a single-issue campaign, a stunning 36.1% of Beaucaire's voters opted for Le Pen's neo-fascist message during first-round polling. A numbing 40% then backed his run-off against Chirac. While dramatic, Beaucaire's lurch to the extreme right was not unique. All told, Le Pen's 26.7% run-off score in the Gard far outpaced his national count of 17.8%. In the otherwise charming...