Word: mussolini
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...poor omens for the future of Argentina. The country is plagued not only by terrorism but by bitter political factionalism and economic decay. Perón was returned to office by voters who clearly hoped against hope that el Lider, at once a kind of Latin Mao and second Mussolini, might magically solve the country's problems. The task would be difficult enough for a man in his prime, but Perón is 77 and ailing. The tragedy may be that Argentina's fate is now in the hands of a man who has the will...
...acoustics are good, and it seats 2,700 people. It lacks the frigid and pompous vulgarity of theaters like the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center or, worse still, Edward Durrell Stone's monstrous box of upholstered Mussolini at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But that is not saying a great deal. The design, with its pleats of white birch, hanging plastic doughnuts and faired-in lights, is weirdly Art Deco: it could be the set for a lavish Buck Rogers movie from the '30s-"Desist, Zorka, or you will destroy...
Small businessmen, farmers and white-collar workers, clinging to status pretensions that threatened to evaporate in the burning sun of an egalitarian revolution, enlisted in Hitler's and Mussolini's armies, wielding banners inscribed 'honor and duty,' thrusting aside the old conservative classes in their eagerness to dismember the Left...
...Allende government by a growing fascist movement, which, centered in the Patria Y Libertad (Fatherland and Liberty) movement, drew increasing support from the middle classes. Patria Y Libertad was formed only after Allende's 1970 election, but the group rapidly gained strength, attracting financial support, as had Hitler and Mussolini, from members of the old conservative landed and industrial classes. The last few months of the socialist government were punctuated with terror bombings and assassinations directed against the Left for which the fascists claimed credit...
...long piazza, clustered a series of closed-circuit TV units at the screen's base, and proceeded to make the place headquarters for the part of the festival devoted to "anti-fascist film-making." The first offering on the open air screen was about a socialist leader murdered by Mussolini; it was followed by the first in a set of "open debates" among the audience. Round the clock the television screens showed tapes of interviews on social questions. On a large easel nearby stood hand-written manifestoes calling for reorganization of the film industry and continued opposition to fascism...