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...especially benefitted him in preparing for his future in a parish in Brazil. Although Torraco is not a Brazilian, since coming to Harvard he has come to feel Brazil needs people educated in an ecumenical tradition since the churches there have problems with what he calls Brazil's "fascist government." "People are getting shot left and right down there. Many times if churches can't get their act together, the government plays one church against the other. There's an added sense of urgency to work together, to save their own necks if nothing else," he says...
Patterson added that there are fascist tendencies in movements toward ethnic pluralism. "Instead of saying we're all equal," he said, "eventually feelings of group superiority develop...
Until that point, only the maverick former Tory Enoch Powell and the small, neo-Fascist National Front had dared to stir up the fears of those who object to the presence of 1.9 million "coloreds" in Great Britain (total pop. 54 million). Thatcher's statement touched off an uproar in Parliament. Labor members shouted "Racist!" There was some dismay in the Conservatives' shadow cabinet, whose members had not been consulted about the declaration, but other Tories applauded her stand, gleefully dubbing her "Thatcher, the Vote Snatcher." Callaghan accused her of "opportunism," while one Cabinet member despaired: "I have...
...students with the cultural foundations for life in American society. But changes in the academic and social environment have made these goals appear in a very different light. The title of that committee's 1945 report, "General Education in a Free Society," immediately conjures up the specter of the Fascist society that America had just helped defeat in war. When President Conant in 1936 called for an educational program that could resist the "wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping around the world," the purpose and the value of the liberal arts ideal was very clear. But while liberal arts has continued...
...farewell Cabinet meeting and drove to the Quirinale Palace to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone. The President immediately began the time-honored ritual of inviting officials of all parties to the Quirinale for talks. Among them: Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer, Socialist Party Leader Bettino Craxi, Neo-Fascist M.S.I. Chieftain Giorgio Almirante, and two Christian Democratic veterans, Benigno Zaccagnini and Amintore Fanfani. After all that, Leone asked Andreotti to try to form a new government...