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History provides no explanation, either. Francisco Franco, a rightist generalisimo who received aid from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the early years of his four-decade-long dictatorship, tried to impose a rigid moralistic and nationalist ethos upon Spain. Liberal intellectuals and partisans of Basque, Galicia, and Catalonia culture bristled under Franco...
Atrocities dominate the larger scale of events in the book. The Nazis originally trained the dogs that attacked June; their presence evokes all the horrors of World War II. Neo-fascist skinheads savage Bernard when he visits Berlin to see the Wall come down. The novel addresses the depths of hatred and spite to which the world often descends. On a personal scale, the narrator himself is both protected by a benign intuition, which saves him from a scorpion's bite, and seized by loathing so intense that he quietly breaks a stranger's nose. In just such an unassuming...
...those who were lucky enough to keep their job. Not the least infuriated by this treatment was the Post's star columnist Mike McAlary, who wrote a scorching piece about the "massacre," labeling Zuckerman "a filthy little dictator . . . a tyrant on the political make" who "borrows freely from the fascist handbook" and, furthermore, "knows less than nothing about writing ((and)) even less about newspapers...
Furthest on the fringe is Pamyat, a rabidly nationalist, anti-Semitic group espousing a return to the czarist monarchy and unabashedly proud of its fascist symbolism. Its members blame most of the country's ills on "people of alien ethnic origin," and refuse to ally themselves with any communists. Declares Pamyat president Dmitri Vasiliev: "No democratic, no communist system or any other ism will be able to stop this irresistible drive toward purification and freedom...
...just its delivery to inconvenience us), and waived our personal liberties. All of which contributed to the most annoying few days of the school year. The Head, far from being the weekend-long party it once was, has become an opportunity for Harvard administrators to play the role of Fascist Dictator with impunity. We're just glad it's over...