This article takes up the question posed by Claudio Pavone—'Have the Italians truly known how to come to terms with their past?'—and argues that Italians have indeed grappled with their Fascist past, albeit in varied, contradictory, ambiguous and incomplete ways. This article demonstrates the...
1. the tenets of a centralized totalitarian and nationalistic government that strictly controls finance, industry, and commerce, practices rigid censorship and racism, and eliminates opposition through secret police. 2. such a form of government, as that of Italy under Mussolini. —fascist,n. —fa...
—of people are just shrugging their shoulders. So many of the children, and grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the generation who shed their blood to stop fascist tyranny, seem kind of okay with the return of Mr. Hate-Light. Lord have mercy, we are stumbling in the dark. So what...
a man of my kidneySeeSIMILARITY. up one’s alleySuited to one’s natural capabilities or interests; one’s concern or business; where one feels at home; sometimesdown one’s alley. Inorup one’s streethas the same meaning, although the exact origin of either expression is anybody’s gues...
“operate in a netherworld just this side of fascism”; and in his critique ofThe Dark Knight Rises, Andrew O’Herir declares that the character’s “universe is fascist,” arguing that the screenplay “pushes the Batman legend to its logical extreme,” a version of “the ideology that was...
5)rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke: Here both "shadow" and "yoke" are used metaphorically, the former meaning the very strong power or influence (of Hitler) and the latter m...
not thinking of yourself "as better than" / "better than of" / "as/so good as" / "as as/so good as" / "as/so well as of" others meaning of this sentence Giant's Causeway Then I just dared myself into it! Am I right in the assumptions?
There were three bodies on the slope just below him where they had fallen when the fascists had rushed the crest under cover of the automatic rifle and submachine gunfire and he and the others had broken down the attack by throwing and rolling down hand grenades. There were other...
a man of my kidneySeeSIMILARITY. up one’s alleySuited to one’s natural capabilities or interests; one’s concern or business; where one feels at home; sometimesdown one’s alley. Inorup one’s streethas the same meaning, although the exact origin of either expression is anybody’s gues...
Last month, one of Germany's most notorious neofascists, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, made what he said would be his final public appearances, to discuss, "Judaism on German Soil Since Roman Times to the Enlightenment," "The Anti-Jewish Jews" and/or "The Political Meaning of Islam." Hoffmann is...