Word: protofascists
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...concern for fiction as a revelation of the truth. The private vision, because it seeks no corroborating evidence, must carry conviction of itself. It is this seriousness-even in the comic vein of a Saul Bellow-which makes Jean-Paul Sartre's satirical portrait of a protoFascist, Childhood of a Leader, seem as frivolous in this company as a mere cartoon. The same quality makes the similarity-a glum but grimly maintained Freudo-Marxist determinism-between Doris Lessing and Italy's Alberto Moravia more pronounced than their differences of sex and language...
...Carter describes as "the uptown Ku Klux Klan." Though it lacked-and still does-any kind of interstate organization or direction, the movement rapidly spread through the South. Today Citizens' Councils and similar organizations under other names have an estimated 300,000 members. A few councils have a protofascist tinge; the great majority of them, however, are composed of respectable, middle-class white Southerners who simply believe "there can be no compromise on segregation...
Lanny chats with Leon Blum and with the protofascist sons of an ex-mistress, and indulges in some mild flirtations, but his one dissipation is his telephone talks with old Johannes Robin, his rich Jewish relative by marriage in Berlin. These talks, and Lanny's occasional visits, reveal Germany's complex political landscape-and reveal also the terrible pathos of a Scheiber (profiteer) who caught on too late...