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...Lawrence, the discoverer of Frost, the teacher of Eliot (who dedicated The Waste Land to him) and even of Yeats. But sometime in the 1930s something went tragically askew. The man Eliot called "the greatest poet alive" lapsed into an aging crank, teasing out nutty monetary theories, making Fascist noises about "international Jewry" as "the true enemy," stuffing junk and glories into a multilingual magpie epic called The Cantos. During World War II he made pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome. Accused of treason and brought back to the U.S., he escaped trial when he was certified insane...
Thirty-six hours before voters went to the polls last week in municipal and regional elections, Italy's small but increasingly influential neo-Fascist party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.), staged a victory celebration in Rome's swank Casina Valadier restaurant. Ordinarily the script might call for the premature celebrators to come up with pasta all over their faces, but, when the election results came in last week, the M.S.I.'s self-confidence proved to be justified. In Sicily, Rome and 157 other cities, a determined get-out-the-vote campaign helped lure more than...
...Most of the balloting, involving nearly one-fifth of Italy's 37 million voters, took place in the conservative south; it almost certainly would have presented a vastly altered picture if it had included the large industrial, traditionally leftist cities, of the north. Nonetheless, the show of neo-Fascist strength seemed to be a vigorous protest against the wave of strikes and disorders, the rising unemployment and the sluggish pace of reforms that have afflicted Italy for the past three years. Said Socialist Giacomo Mancini, whose party is the second strongest in the ruling coalition: "The M.S.I, would...
Anger & Frustration. Most of the neo-Fascist votes were picked up at the expense of the Christian Democrats, Italy's dominant political organization. Last week the Christian Democrats registered 31% of the total vote, compared with 35.2% in last year's regional elections. Except for Genoa, where they preserved their old power balance with one-third of the tally, the Communists also dropped votes. The M.S.I, gains were most pronounced in Sicily, where the party picked up eight seats for a total of 15 in the regional legislature. The Christian Democrats, by comparison, lost seven seats, which left...
Articles by less famous polemicists have also had considerable impact. From exile in Algiers, Black Panther Richard Moore wrote a piece accusing Panther Huey P. Newton of substituting slogans for action, castigating the Times as "the organ of the ruling class" and condemning the "Fascist Farce of a Trial Presided over by the evil likes of [Judge] John Murtagh," from whose court Moore had fled. As the Times clearly intended, its Op-Ed has provided an occasional beam of fresh light on familiar topics. Edward C. Banfield, a professor of government at Harvard, described "the lower class" as not necessarily...