Word: ramiro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What he failed to see was that only slaves could live inside the authoritarian superstate. To Hulme, as Biographer Jones rightly notes, must go some of the ideological responsibility for the fact that his friend, the Spanish diplomat Ramiro de Maetzu, died fighting for Franco, that Pound embraced Mussolini, that Wyndham Lewis touted Hitler, and that Eliot's Idea of a Christian Society is a rigidly hierarchical blueprint for what his mentor called "the constant society." On the plus side, Hulme helped make neo-orthodoxy respectable, modern art approachable, and cyclical philosophies of history acceptable...