Word: neos
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Most scholars and the international community recognize some standards of legitimacy in secessionist claims: that claimants must be a `self-determining entity' with clear territorial bounds; that among this group, there must a clearly-expressed and incontestable will to secede for reasons of neo-colonial exploitation, denial of fundamental human rights, or functional subjugation or disenfranchisement; and that the new state must earn international recognition. The case of Quebec fulfills none of these criteria...
...work and one of the few constants throughout his career. Disillusioned with the Communist Party and the Catholic Church, he criticized both. Yet even in criticizing them, he clung to them, commenting on them incessantly in his films. This central conflict generates much of the beauty of his neo-realist-inspired "Mamma Roma...
...film features one-time prostitute Mamma Roma (played by Anna Magnani, one of the most popular actresses of neo-realism, with whom Pasolini had ideological as well as artistic disputes, but who nonetheless plays exquisitely what she had called "the most important role I have played so far"). After her former pimp, Carmine (Franco Citti), marries a well-to-do lady from the countryside, Mamma Roma attempts to lead a respectable life, selling vegetables in an open air Roman market. More importantly, she brings her son, Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), to Rome, with the hopes of providing him a good education...
Were this just a story of disillusionment, of a woman's dreams shattered by the harsh realities of post-WWII Italy, "Mamma Roma" would be just another neo-realist film. Part of Pasolini's genius lies in his inability to rest in any one school or style. He has too much to say to remain only in the neo-realist genre, the genre most suited to his Marxist leanings. The film often seems torn between its clear Marxist stance and its religious overtones, as its many artistic influences and ideas blend together to create an omnipresent tension. Pasolini creates...
This evasion of serious thinking is by no means characteristic of all conservatives, either at Harvard or in the United States. Only this week Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies and Program on Constitutional Government sponsored a deeply thought provoking conference on the legacy--and future--of American neo-conservatism...