Word: fascistically
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After some catcalls including "murderer" and "fascist," the secretary replied with vehemence. "And I was tougher then and I'm tougher...
...dark pall hovers over the the story when Ilana's father is killed while covering the fascist bombing of Guernica. Ilana continues to go to synagogue in order to say Kaddish despite her mother's disapproval. Soon, Ilana leaves public school and enrolls in a Jewish day school. There is a sort of spiritual determinism at work here: despite her mother's adamant atheism, despite her father's Protestant background Ilana has a Jewish soul in need of uncovering. This represents a twist of the theme of generational conflict that is at the crux of much of Potok's work...
...Latinate: incursion, attrition, pacification, termination with extreme prejudice. The linguistic underside of that was the flip, sinister slang that the American G.I.s contrived: dinky dau (crazy), numbah ten (the worst), Charlie (the Viet Cong), grease (kill). The antiwar movement built a massive vocabulary of rhetorical excess about "fascist Amerika." Officers lied in writing up citations for their men and themselves. The Viet Nam Memorial is, in a sense, the most purely true thing that can be said about the American war in Viet Nam. It has the tragic grace of the incontestably lost and therefore the incontestably true--the names...
...Brody's food, transportation and lodging expenses. Payan also charged that witnesses - interviewed by Brody were "manipulated peasants" whose testimony was sometimes edited to remove any pro-contra sentiments. According to Payan, Brody often displayed a photograph of himself hugging President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and called Ronald Reagan a "fascist...
Brody conceded that he does not like Reagan but said, "I don't think I called him a fascist." He admitted that he opposes U.S. policy in Nicaragua, saying, "It's wrong, shortsighted, and being in Nicaragua convinced me of that...