Word: fascistically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sorrow share a sense of personal fallibility. They understand that the Occupation was a fall from human dignity, and accept the part they played. D'Astier de la Vigerie attributes his current serenity to his constant fear during the war. Christian de la Maziere, a former French fascist, is one of the most dignified men in the film because he does not deny the truth about himself. The hero, if one has to be named, is Mendes-France, who suffered, survived, and remained human. In this history there are not great men so much as there are honest ones...
...relevance of the charges by nothing that "the operative factor in this negotiating situation and others seems to be the pressing of self-interest by both parties"--as if critics had been claiming that Gulf was not just a corporation, but a perverse philanthropic organization chartered to fund a fascist governments and military adventures...
...countries, the U.S. has a weakness for panaceas, a fondness for recrimination after failure. But history and human nature dash many widely held hopes and apparently reasonable judgments. For a long time, Luce could not admit to himself Chiang's fatal weaknesses. Similarly, men who called Luce a fascist in the 1930s could not face the fact of Stalin's purges. Today liberals regard the American labor movement as warmongering, reactionary and materialist; 40 years ago, they assumed that the rise of strong unions would make egalitarian America awake and sing. The sense of One Worldly responsibility that...
...real sense, if we accept the models of recent European historians, Marjoe illustrates the genuine danger of persistent fascist strains currently evident in America. Essentially left behind by the urban industrial age, the rural Pentecostalists, usually very young or very old and poor in either case, see no hope for self-advancement in the reality of changing American life. They are struggling to adhere to the values by which they have been raised amidst an era of upheaval in which those values have been betrayed, Theirs is a last ditch effort to fend off the Powers of the unknown...
...Baron von Sepper, a World War I Austrian flying ace and an enthusiastic fascist, Burton feels a lugubrious vocation to dispatch a series of wives-Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon and several other international cupcakes. "They were all monsters," he explains. "They only looked human when they were dead." His eighth frau is an American, Joey Heatherton, who comes on like a refugee from a Tijuana specialty act. With good, home-grown American intuition, Joey discovers that the baron's problems are rooted in impotence and a rather baroque affection for his departed mother. The baron rewards this...