Question

In this essay, the author recounts meeting a black soldier who shows him “the marvels of Dick Tracy and Li’l Abner.” This essay mentions an artist who “wanted to kill” the moonlight who was appointed to a position “which treated moonlight with great respect.” This essay uses Wittgenstein’s family resemblance to analyze the decreasing commonalities of abc, (15[1])bcd, cde, and def. This essay notes how the “ersatz phallic exercise” of “[playing] with weapons” is a tendency of an archetypal (*) hero who is “impatient to die.” This essay calls Gabriele D’Annunzio “a dandy who in Germany or in Russia would have been sent to the firing squad.” Common properties of this essay’s title system include “selective (-5[1])populism,” “action for action’s sake,” and a “cult of tradition.” (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])“Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt” is the subtitle of what essay by Umberto (-5[1])Eco analyzing a political system? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Ur-Fascism” [or “Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt”; or “Il fascismo eterno”; or “Ur-Fascismo”] (The artist is Filippo Marinetti.)
<Literature - European Literature - Misc Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country5615
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken114-5
Jack van NostrandRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha124-5
Gareth ThorlaksonSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donutas rational as the square root of two power bottoms127-5
Adil HaiderThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere142-5
Yihong ChenModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers1480
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut14810
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange14810

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