Word: mussolini
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...second best: the penetrating dramatist of culture clash and the clever animater of received wisdom. His new novel stretches from the Edwardian Age through the 1970s. At the halfway mark, the reader has already had brushes with Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Havelock Ellis, Mussolini and Heinrich Himmler...
...1930s; in Orsay, France. A brilliant but impatient thinker and a gifted orator, Sir Oswald (he inherited the title from his father, an English baronet) was elected to Parliament at age 22 as a Conservative, later became an independent, then a Socialist Laborite, and finally embraced the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler. Held in detention as a national security risk during World War II, he later exiled himself to a villa in France. His son, Novelist Nicholas Mosley, said of him: "I see clearly that while the right hand dealt with grandiose ideas and glory, the left hand...
Would those folks who intend to vote for the lesser of two evils have endorsed Mussolini because they didn't like Hitler? I do not feel that anybody has the right to badger people into voting against their own standards...
Americans no longer learn much from either their history or their myth. Mussolini said: "It is not impossible to govern Italians. It is merely useless." The same thing may eventually be true of Americans. They have too much freedom; without discipline, without a sense of being responsible and useful in the world, their angers spill and slop like battery acids. They have no more justification for their endless social license than the breezes of their appetites, the whims in the glands. The psychological sense of sudden boundaries, all bets off, new rules to be made, stirs old American questions. LaFeber...
Alberto Moravia, Italian author (Time of Desecration) and sometime film critic: "I did not like The Godfather. Too pessimistic. And Coppola's next film, Apocalypse Now, was even worse. Marlon Brando was a cross between Benito Mussolini and a big piece of cheese...