Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics, as in much else, Shaw was often preposterous. One after the other, as the dictators appeared, he applauded Mussolini. Hitler and Stalin -in the no-nonsense manner of a Fabian socialist committee-on the grounds that they were cleaning up a mess. Such obtuseness in a man whose life is a record of devotion to decency in human life can be explained only as an aberration, perhaps a dramatist's occupational disability of putting his own words into the mouths of other characters. Lenin saw Shaw as "a good man fallen among Fabians." Shaw, perversely, seemed to regard...
...been cast in various disguises. It has been called countervailing power, creative federalism, partnership and participatory democracy, though this last phrase has also been appropriated by the New Left as a call for a politics of direct action. By whatever name, writes Lowi, pluralism results in something uncomfortably like Mussolini's corporate state: a congeries of largely unassailable, unresponsible special interests, armed with governmental power, that set national policy...
...entertainers are always in demand in Europe, but few enjoy the adulation accorded Songstress Ella Fitzgerald. Making her annual European tour, Miss Ella was warmly welcomed by fans as she strolled down Rome's Via Veneto. She dined early at Giggi Fazi with Romano Mussolini (one of Benito's sons) and his wife Maria (Sophia Loren's sister), then put on a show at the Teatro Sistina that nearly brought the palazzo down. Dressed in a simple blouse and skirt, Ella warbled her standards: Mack the Knife, Mister Paganini, A Man And A Woman, then answered...
Mosley recreates a climate of haplessness. French Premier Edouard Daladier, Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Beneš and even Mussolini seemed as out of step with history as Chamberlain. They were obsolete men (in the McLuhan sense) when compared to an eerily turned-on Hitler. Czechoslovakia, with a modern air force and a well-trained army, put up no resistance. It was, alas, Poland that stood firm: the only trouble was, as Mosley observes, "When the Poles saber-rattled it was actually sabers they were rattling...
...past century, ten divorce bills have been introduced in Parliament, but none ever got out of committee. Under the 1929 Concordat between Mussolini and the Vatican, the law was even tightened. Up to that time, foreign divorces had been recognized, giving wealthier Italians an escape hatch. The Concordat abolished this exception, and slammed shut the hatch...