Word: italianize
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This recognition of the cosmopolitan imperative in American life is both correct and in line with the comparable recognition of the cosmopolitan imperative by Jewish, Irish, Italian, Asian, and other ethnic students at Harvard. The cosmopolitan imperative, moreover, does not preclude intra-ethnic relationships and networks, as Timothy Wilkins, head of Harvard Black Students Association, intimated in his comment that Black students "see that Harvard is the only Ivy League school without a Third World Center and they think that the University wants all Black students to assimilate." The cosmopolitan imperative demands only that the parochial impulses and proclivities that...
Finally, this degenerated into a "national front," which tried to unify resistance against the fascists, who were aided to a considerable extent by the Mussolini's Italian government, by appealing to nationalist and patriotic sentiment. In making these compromises on its original goal, the communists sought to prove themselves bourgeois democrats: they ruthlessly persecuted substantial Trotskyist and anarchist segments of the resistance. These groups were crushed, and their gains since the advent of socialism largely rescinded...
...same time, Carr notes, the Western countries that unconditionally condemned the rebellion did nothing to save the republic Using as an excuse false international non-intervention agreements, which were not heeded in the least by their German and Italian signatories. America, England and France refused to and the struggling Spanish government When pressed by their own workers movements, they branded the Spaniards communists, despite the latter's every effort to abandon their political goals in order to survive...
Because of Stalin's desire to attain a rapprochement with the West as the spectre of German and Italian militarism grew large the Spanish government became expendable Carr quotes a Soviet intelligence officer's account of a split in the Comintern between those that feared to provoke the animosity of France (these included Stalin), and those who felt that there was no moral choice but to come to the defense of the Republic These last Stalin branded as Protskyites...
...they found was a busy, self-contained complex devoted entirely to the production of cocaine. Tranquilandia included a dormitory large enough to sleep 80 or more, and a dining area complete with dishwasher and refrigerator. Its bathrooms were furnished with showers and orange-and-white flush toilets made of Italian ceramic. Among its more luxurious appointments were a Betamax video recorder, a microwave oven and a library of pornographic magazines. According to the community's records, fresh supplies of chickens and pigs were flown in daily; the settlement's payroll took care of as many as 1,000 employees, including...