Word: fascistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their top candidate they picked an aging politician with a respected past, 83-year-old Francesco Nitti, a onetime pre-Fascist (1919-20) Premier of Italy. Their 80 city council candidates were neatly divided between 20 open Reds, 20 Nenni Socialists (who follow the Red line), and 40 fellow traveling "independents...
...went into the trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry-go, patrols, digging; digging, patrols, sentry-go. On every hilltop, Fascist or Loyalist, a knot of ragged, dirty men shivering round their flag and trying to keep warm. And all day and night the meaningless bullets wandering across the empty valleys and only by some rare improbable chance getting home on a human body...
...sees it as something of a happy medium between Fascist realism and "the form which cubism had diffused to the point of meaninglessness." He calls his style "realistic idealism," goes in for lush figures, both clothed and nude, done in thick, vivid colors...
While ex-Red Louis Budenz has attacked Harvard as Communistic in the American Legion Magazine, the spring, 1952, issue of "New Foundations" reverses this policy, and puts the College, President Conant, the Board of Overseers, and the CRIMSON on the fascist pole of totalitarianism--using terms such as "white supremacy," "racism," genocide," "segregation," and "quota system...
...Western good will hit one snag. From New York's Mayor Vincent Impellitteri went an urgent cable to Madrid's Mayor José Moreno Torres, withdrawing an earlier invitation to visit New York City next month. Local labor union leaders who rate Franco as a fascist and union-buster had threatened to call demonstrations. Mayor Torres manfully accepted the dis-invitation but added acidly: "When I invite someone to my home for dinner, I first make sure I have enough food and a place at the table...