Word: pasionaria
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Henry Fonda's little girl who went to Vassar grew up to be not only a gifted actress but the Pasionaria of the antiwar movement. In the early '70s Jane marched in protests and starred at rallies, and during a trip to North Viet Nam, spoke against the U.S. war effort over Radio Hanoi. "I'm not a do-gooder," she proclaimed in those days. "I'm a revolutionary-a revolutionary woman...
...believe it would have been an equally triumphant day for democracy had La Pasionaria been elected in a free election...
...culture is rather like a radio receiving many disparate signals simultaneously. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's utterances detonate like cherry bombs. Anita Bryant, the Pasionaria of heterosex, arouses furies in her campaign against homosexuals. The air is full of serious issues that few people except those directly affected take all that seriously: human rights, Laetrile, Idi Amin...
There were rumors of a military coup, but after a tense meeting, the conservative Army Superior Council agreed to accept the government's decision "for patriotism's sake." Exiles were given passports to return home. Carrillo led the way, followed by others, including La Pasionaria from Moscow and Communist Poet Rafael Alberti from Rome. This spring Suárez's government legalized trade unions and restored the right of workers to strike. Finally, it reestablished diplomatic relations, severed since 1939, with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...
...were part of a deal between the Spanish Communists and the government, which, in return for issuing Ibarruri her passport, insisted on discretion to avoid violent reactions from Spanish rightists. In fact, the party would have preferred her to remain in Moscow until this week. Willful as ever, La Pasionaria had long insisted that she would take the first flight home after getting her passport...