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LOOKING BACK OVER Vittorio De Sica's career is to uncover a list of contradictions; a brave man and great filmmaker, or a genius at political compromise and a mediocre director, even a matinee idol or consummate actor. During the post-World War II decade in a battered, guiltridden Italy, he was in the vanguard of the New Realism, and thereby a prominent figure under attack by his country's outraged government, clergy and film critics. In critical circles outside Italy, his cinematic results were considered brilliant (Shoeshine, 1946; Bicycle Thief, 1948; Umberto D, 1950); the ensuing wrath he incurred...
...Derived from Marcus Garvey's similar banner for his post-World War I black nationalist movement, the "liberation" tricolor first came into contemporary use by black groups some ten years...
...would be a mistake to think that ideas are loss dangerous than actions. History shows otherwise, "Scientific" racists like Gobineau in the mid-nineteenth century and the anti-Semites of post-World War I Europe helped create atmospheres in which genocide was an intellectual possibility. More recently, some Cold War historians, describing a "monolithic Communist bloc," have given an academic cushion for an American government that indiscriminately opposes Communism...
...were heightened by shabby living conditions. Many units are garrisoned in barracks once used by Hitler's Wehrmacht, some built in Bismarck's day. Heat and hot water are inadequate, plaster peels, pipes leak, and toilets overflow. Nearby Bundeswehr (West German army) troops, meanwhile, live comfortably in post-World War II quarters...
...nation faces hair-curling budget deficits-all caused by unexpectedly weak tax receipts. Last January, Nixon had forecast a deficit of $11.6 billion for the current fiscal year. But Treasury Secretary John Connally revealed that the shortfall is now expected to reach $27 billion or $28 billion-a post-World War II record...