Word: fascistically
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...named Lady Felicity (John Bett). Yet, as the British humor magazine Punch noted in defense of the movie. Anderson ultimately remains just this side of decorum: when the Queen Mother finally does arrive--admittedly in a stretcher and ambulance to get her past the left-wing mobs protesting the fascist African dictator being treated inside--she is courteous and composed, and thoroughly respectable...
...risk no less than that of the divestiture fasters. This risk relates to the possible loss of profits from lucrative investments in South Africa. The Harvard administration also risks the loss of friends among the American power elites who, through either outright sympathy with South Africa's fascist and racist ways or just plain callous indifference, will sever connections with a Harvard that risks some of its wealth in order to save its soul. We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callously that it is incapable of matching the moral threat of divestiture...
Kirkpatrick ran into similar trouble at the University of Minnesota last month. Even before she began her speech, student protesters shouted epithets and chanted, "Murderer! Nazi! Fascist, go home!" (The "Nazi" vocabulary is promiscuously adaptable.) Smith College invited Kirkpatrick to be its commencement speaker this spring, and prepared to award her an honorary degree. The school then decided it could not guarantee decorum if Kirkpatrick came to speak, and so she withdrew...
...over the Falklands in the near future--for the British, that would be a travesty of the lives lost in conquest--but England will eventually relinquish the islands as surely as it now controls them. The conviction that the Falklands are Argentinian is not just the province of a fascist dictatorship, but the heartfelt belief of all of Argentina's citizens and the concern of past and future democratic governments. When the economic burden of holding the islands becomes too great for the British, the process of negotiation that should have been taking place a year ago will finally resume...
...always near, then it is our duty to survive." Merely to survive is not enough; the risky quest to meet the near-legendary American soldiers is an opportunity to infuse a sense of adventure and myth into a cluster of lives grown grey and sodden under years of Fascist rule. So they make their way through the foothills, while the partisans and the straggling black shirted Fascists (looking like an army of scarecrows) wage skirmishes around them...