Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prison. The U.A.R. produced the prisoner for reporters, alive and in good health, called in the Soviet ambassador and demanded that the story be retracted. Instead, Moscow shifted to another supposed torture victim, Lebanese Communist Party Secretary Farajallah el Helw, who had allegedly been done in by a "savage fascist crime, like the killing of Lumumba...
...ITALIAN: Violent Summer is an old-wave film about a short, sensuous, foredoomed affair played out in Fascist Italy. In Two Women, mother (Sophia Loren) and daughter (Eleonora Brown), prove that in World War II Italy, only those who suffer can love. La Dolce Vita is a sprawling, formless masterpiece of modern Rome's spiritual depravity and sexual excess, and L'Avventura is another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates...
Violent Summer (in Italian). An old wave film of a short, sensuous, foredoomed affair played out in Fascist Italy...
...heroine and her haughty mother are sharing a villa on the beach at Riccione when word comes that Eleanora's husband has been killed in action. Dawdling around the docks is Trintignant, who, thanks to his Fascist father's political connections, has dodged the draft. He is years younger than Eleanora, but against a wistfully romantic background of coltish gaiety, parental protests, surf, sun, and sentimental period pieces like Temptation, they play out a long, sensuous, foredoomed affair...
Beyond All Isms. A heavy interplay of curious coincidences and a shallow depiction of character place this book with Silone 's frailer fiction. However, the fact that the main sacrificial act in the novel is performed by a Fascist is significant as well as startling. It marks how much the world and Silone have changed from the 1930s, when left-v.-right politics was not only the ruling international passion but a kind of immutable moral law. The Fox and the Camellias is a book beyond Fascism, Communism, socialism or even humanism. It is a Christian statement, arguing essentially...