Word: fascistically
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...last week Sullivan got his chance in a guest appearance on Manhattan radio station WMCA. He pointed out that Winchell has been calling Negro Singer Josephine Baker* pro-Fascist, Communist-guided, anti-Jewish and even anti-Negro since she charged that the Stork Club had refused to serve her food (TIME, Nov. 12). Cried Sullivan: "I despise Walter Winchell for what he has done to Josephine Baker. Long before [Senator] McCarthy came into the character-assassination racket, Winchell was one of [its] originators . . . This small-time vaudeville hoofer who never even got to the Palace . . . has developed into a small...
...Conformist, by Alberto Moravia. Italy's best novelist unravels the charac ter of a Fascist (TIME, Nov.12...
Later, a correspondent remarked to Levi: "They called you a fascist. That's almost as bad as being a capitalist, isn't it?" Replied Levi: "Yes, almost...
There was nothing narcotic about the year's novels from Italy. The two best were by Alberto Moravia: Conjugal Love, which dealt with a nasty marriage conflict without becoming nasty, and The Conformist, the case history of a weakling whose weakness made him a Fascist. Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) came a cropper with The Watch, a sympathetic but unfocused look at his postwar land, but Giuseppe Berto followed an uneven first novel (The Sky Is Red) with The Brigand, the story of an Italian Robin Hood which exposed the despair of ordinary people with a fine mixture...
...years between, he feels his life was shaped by his first crime, which affirmed, for him, a boyhood suspicion that he was different from other people. So he consciously enforces "normality" on himself, makes himself act like the people around him, advocates order and authority; joins the Fascist Party as a secret policeman, and marries a "normal" girl he does not love. When he finds alive the man he thought he had shot, he realizes that the act had nothing to do with shaping his life. The book concludes that man is snared in his own destiny...