Word: fascistizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best hated men in Spain. Miguel Aranda first came to Oviedo in 1934 with the rank of colonel and orders from Madrid to help put down a revolution of Asturian socialists and anarchists against what they saw to be a swiftly developing fascist dictatorship. With ruthless Foreign Legionaries and Moors, imported into Spain for the first time in its history, Aranda did his work well, causing the death of numberless men in a few weeks...
...bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared to appreciate a visit by Benito Mussolini to Adolf Hitler, both loud in proclaiming on every occasion that their Fascist-Nazi mission is to save Europe from Communism...
...Vittorio Mussolini, 21, married and a veteran bomber of Ethiopian villages, has been excited about the cinema for over a year. But the original idea for this latest of Fascist corporations belonged to neither Vittorio Mussolini nor Hollywood Producer Hal Roach. It belonged to an earnest Italian, Dr. Renato Senise, nephew of the chief of Rome's secret police and son of an Academician. To Hollywood he went over a year ago fired with his pet idea, the production of full length cinema operas in Italy where tenors are as plentiful as olives. There he met Producer Hal Roach...
Back to Italy a few months ago went Dr. Senise to tackle the then head of Fascist films, Luigi Freddi, in the expensive Cinema City that II Duce has built outside Rome. To Filmtsar Freddi the idea of cinemoperas seemed "too big, too beautiful" for Italy. Piqued Dr. Senise went immediately to Vittorio Mussolini, who carried the plan just as quickly to papa...
...made up and sung by guitarristas in Andalusia for centuries before Spanish poets began consciously to exploit their simple metres and barbaric flair. In Spain and in Europe at large the acknowledged master of this school was Federico Garcia Lorca, a musician and theatrical producer who was shot by Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias (a bull-fighter). Readers who have hair that is capable of rising will feel scalped at several points in this harshly sensuous, musically calculated and fiercely whole-hog song...