Word: fascistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Boccioni and the Futurist movement died in World War I, but not the idea of breaking with the musty past. That persisted even during the Fascist passion for neoclassicism. Last week, visitors at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art were getting their first good look at what the Italians had been up to all those years...
...best artists in the show were among the youngest. Twenty-five-year-old Renzo Vespignani's melancholy pen & ink drawings of the debris of Fascist Rome, and 23-year-old Marcello Muccini's Bull, as sharp and simple as a pair of murderous horns, held their own beside the work of their elders. Italian art had survived Fascism, the exhibition proved beyond a doubt. It was at least as lively as that of the U.S., Britain and France; and, on the evidence of the younger painters, there was more to come...
Past Glories. Among the delegates at the congress were a few grey heads, schoolteachers and oldtime Fascist functionaries, but most were youngsters. In the red and gilt boxes sat such patrons as Marchesa Eloisa Marignoli, one of the party's chief backers, who languidly fanned her stiff, white-powdered face...
...seance continued. Once it looked as though Mussolini's own ghost had returned when one Luigi Filosa, a Fascist henchman, got up to speak; Filosa was short and bald, stood squarely with his hands on his hips and stuck out his lower lip in characteristic Mussolinian truculence. From dark corners of the auditorium drifted snatches of Fascist hymns. A philosophy professor, who shouted: "Democracy is a fraud!" was arrested by the watchful secret service men. The hysterical speakers babbled on. Yelled a woman teacher: "They come, these Americans, these ignorant bushmen, to show us-the heirs of Michaelangelo...
...most of the workers, merchants, prostitutes and thieves who inhabited the tiny Via del Corno in 1925, Mussolini's recent power grab was of less interest than neighborhood scandal. But Carlino, the Fascist clerk, itched for the Second Wave that would bring revenge on his political enemies. And Maciste, the Communist blacksmith, glumly recognized the shattering defeat that Italian leftists had suffered. Fruit Peddler Ugo, his hotheaded disciple, broke with him over weakkneed party policy, but returned one night when he learned that the Second Wave was starting. They roared off on Maciste's motorcycle in a desperate...