Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News and Cissie Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. Last fortnight, in his maiden speech, he let fly: Captain Joe and Cissie, he charged, were "America's No. 1 and No. 2 exponents of the Nazi propaganda line . . . doing their best to bring about a Fascist victory, hoping that in that victory they will be rewarded...
This novel about Fascist Italy is by no means a perfect book, but in some respects it may be a great one. It will mean little to those who use politics to butter their daily bread and not much to those for whom politics is the breath of life. But it will mean much to those who prefer to be human beings despite all politics. They may be appalled by the price. In Ignazio Silone's judgment, the price has not changed since Gospel days: he who would gain his own soul must first lose the world...
...story is simple. In a village in the Abruzzi at the time of the war on Ethiopia, a brave old woman hides her sick anti-Fascist grandson, Pietro Spina, from the police. Recovered, he leaves her, joins his friends in another hideout. An informer forces them to move on. They do a little underground work. Pietro (he was also the hero of Bread and Wine, TIME, April 5, 1937) begins a romance, runs afoul of the authorities as the book ends...
...World is the world where cynicism is the last refuge of integrity. There the village druggist, to gain prestige, wedges himself between two fourth-rate party hacks and tries to muscle into the gossip. There, an old horse, forever paretically nodding yes-yes-yes, is named Plebiscite. There, the Fascist party's local orator, Don Coriolano, speaks for that "moderate" faith in God which priests "widely recommend...
...Pietro was quite sure of one thing: "A man who is spiritually a slave cannot work for true freedom." So he learned to outwear the dogmas and dodge the spiritual traps even of the anti-Fascist party...