Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle a Fascist...
Many of his opponents have called De Gaulle a Fascist, a charge for which there is some justification. a theoretical point of view, De Gaulle's view of parliamentary democracy and of the function of a leader highly similar to the Fascist one. and Mussolini condemned parliamentary democracy for its failure represent the interests of the nation a whole. The parties, they said, out only for the interests of the groups they represented. The sum of group interests was far different from the national interests, which only be preserved by the leader of a single man, who was above...
...father, Italy's Dictator Benito Mussolini, who sawed passably on a violin, banned jazz in the country because it was "an expression of an inferior race." Romano and his older brother Vittorio soon became clandestine jazz buffs. Vittorio smuggled U.S. jazz records into the Mussolini household throughout the Fascist era, and on occasion Papa Mussolini would grudgingly admit that some of the disks had merit in a decadent way. But the Duce did not live to see the day when Romano, now 33, has won acclaim as one of Italy's coolest jazz pianists. Describing his music...
...Personae," the word with which Ezra Pound titled his first book of poems, originally meant masks. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, who is 75 this week, has worn many. There is Pound the poet, critic, scholar and esthetic perfectionist. There is Pound the economic crank, anti-Semite and Fascist apologist. There is Pound the expatriate bohemian, the discoverer, friend, advocate and ally of Eliot and Joyce, who got them into print. He begged, wheedled, scolded, scandalized others and scanted himself to secure bread-and-but ter money for them and for many another subsequently famed writer. In that role...
...Lumumba cried: "I am going out of my house tonight to die like Gandhi ... If I die, it will be because the whites have paid a black man to kill me ... I made Kasavubu head of state; now he is nothing but an outlaw. Mobutu is an imperialist, a fascist." Later he told the newsmen: "You journalists, you can go anywhere. Fetch Kasavubu. Fetch Mobutu. Tell them Lumumba challenges them to a duel!" Then Lumumba's voice fell to a mumble, and he tottered off to bed, muttering: "Tomorrow I will die with the people, I will...