Word: fascistically
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WHEN THE ARMED Forces Movement led the coup last April 25 that ousted Premier Marcello Caetano and marked the end of 46 years of fascist rule in Portugal, the prospects for a fire Portugal looked good. At the time, General Antonio de Spinola disbanded the terrorist secret police, and promised the people a free press and free elections within a year. In the wake of a right-wing coup March 11, allegedly led by Spinola, it seemed that the people's hopes that swelled last year were imperiled. For a time, elections were delayed and the High Council...
Speaking at the Law School Forum, Allende gave a detailed description of CIA involvement in the 1973 coup to an audience of over 900 people, and said that CIA activities "stimulate fascist governments which threaten democracy and consequently world peace...
Working clandestinely, he formed a nucleus of professional revolutionaries, creating a broader-based anti-Fascist movement, and organized strikes, set up an underground press and established relations with the international Communist movement. In 1949 he was caught and again imprisoned. When he managed to escape from the infamous Peniche prison in 1961, Cunhal had spent eight full years in solitary confinement...
...more money than Russell had seen in some time. His last movies, The Boy Friend, The Music Lovers and Savage Messiah, were flops for a while, Mahler had trouble finding a distributor, reportedly because of a unique piece of Russelliana: a scene showing Cosima Wagner, the master's fascist widow, goose-stepping over Catholic Convert Mahler...
...fact, we get along fine, and when the question came from someone I didn't know well it always seemed excessively personal. More annoying, although it generally comes from better friends, is the off-hand comment like "How does it feel to be the son of a fascist?" Until today, it was never said completely in jest. Now it is said as if the rejoinder "Isn't everyone?" is understood. Either way, I don't like...