Word: fascistically
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Despite the clamps on freedom during the first years of World War II, the pockets of youthful defiance that Savage describes in Germany and occupied France showed a daring contempt for fascist authority, expressing it to the beat of American pop culture. The self-styled Swing Kids of Hamburg and the Zazous of Paris paid a heavy price in beatings and scalpings for growing their hair, wearing Zoot suits, and dirty dancing to banned jazz. "Instead of uniformity, they proclaimed difference; instead of aggression, overt sexuality," writes Savage, with as good a recipe as any for the teenage era that...
...that student sometimes encounters a guard who will rustle through his affairs with silent, fascist intensity, as if the library’s DVD collection housed something worth stealing. This, however, does come down to luck, and a portion of Lamont’s staff is quite friendly considering the amount of time they spend in the horrible building...
...Meadows contends that it was only during the 1980s that the skinhead movement became infected by the Far Right, a collection of neo-fascist political parties, led by the infamous National Front, which called for the forced repatriation of immigrants. With the decline of British manufacturing and the onset of high unemployment, many working-class skins, whose communities bore the brunt of the new arrivals from abroad, became seduced by the promises of anti-immigrant politicians...
...Combo sets about ousting Woody with a classic divide-and-rule speech about the need for "proud warriors" to defend England's green and pleasant land. Having then established himself as a surrogate father to Shaun, Woody drags the remaining members of the gang, after several desertions, to a fascist National Front rally...
...Year Zero’s” release, but a cautionary note to those same listeners: this is not the norm for Reznor and co.—and the change might be hard to swallow. As a concept album dealing with religion, mind-control drugs, and a fascist American government, “Year Zero” is set in a world straight out of a Philip K. Dick story. It’s definitely a new experiment for NIN. It’s also a musical departure: “Year Zero” features a substantial number...