Word: franco
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Screenplay by Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Arcalli and Giuseppe Bertolucci...
...decade he had been tried in the fire of the nation's anti-communist paranoia. Brought before the House Committee on Un-American activities, Fast refused to release a list of contributors to the Spanish Refugee Appeal, a group providing medical help to the Spanish Republican forces opposing Franco's fascist movement. This refusal earned Fast, a director of the organization, a three-month term in jail for contempt of Congress. And for years afterward Fast was unable to find a publisher who would handle his work...
...first resident Spaniard to win the prize, which carries a $145,000 cash award, since the Franco regime took power...
Marichal said that during the oppressive dictatorship of Franco in the 1940s, Aleixandre became a focus of hope for Spanish artists...
...Sweden, the European country which was most opposed to Franco, to give this award to a man who represents the continuity of Spanish poetry and human concern is a show of faith in the new Spain," he added...