Word: anarchistic
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...lovable." U.S. officials who must deal with him are both awed and appalled. Former U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor in exasperation once called him "the Makarios of Southeast Asia"?though he is far more retiring and ascetic than Makarios. One of his Buddhist rivals insists that he is an anarchist. The Catholics are certain that he is a Communist. He has been variously described as a demagogue, a saint, a puppetmaster, a seer and "the mad monk...
Most of the film concerns rebellion led by the Marisa against one Mexican feudal-type baron named Rodriguez, whom the troupe discovers beating a serf. As the opening credits shows us, Brigitte grew up tossing bombs with her anarchist father; Moreau goes political for the first time when she falls in love with the Christ-figure revolutionary Flores (George Hamilton). In the closing moments of the film we get a fast sequence of castles exploding all over Mexico as the revolution prevails...
...survive bohemia's bad art, freewheeling sex and bogus labor evangelism. He did not renounce his old causes; the secular faith of socialism simply ran out on him. "The moral content of the old radical movement has vanished altogether," he writes today. "The classics of socialist and anarchist literature seem at mid-century to speak a foolish and naive language...
...first sphere is labor, organized now into state-controlled syndicates but under the shadow of the great anarchist and socialist unions of the Republic-which still operate underground, still hold the sympathies of many workers. The second sphere is the Christian Democratic Movement, a loose coalition of Catholic groups ranging from the conservative Accion Catolica, which supports the regime, to the left-leaning Catholic labor movements, which oppose it. (Members of Opus Dei can be found in all groups.) The third is the Monarchists, well organized but without mass popular support. And above them all is the army, leaning...
...econo my keeps laying its golden eggs, Spain's future is bright, indeed. Which is why it is so important that Spain's present boom continue. A few more years of rising prosperity could easily instill the feeling of general well being on which, in anarchist Spain at least, real political maturity must be based...