Oriana Fallaci: Champion of civilization

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Oriana Fallaci: Champion of civilization

Post by stilltrucking » September 19th, 2006, 1:17 am

WRITER HERO, ORIANA FALLACIFrom the book, Immortality, author, Milan Kundera writes,"...who is the pioneer of modern journalism? Not Hemingway who wrote of his experiences in the trenches, not Orwell who spent a year of his life with the Parisian poor, not Egon Erwin Kisch the expert on Prague prostitutes, but Oriana Fallaci who in the years 1969 to 1972 published a series of interviews with the most famous politicians of the time. Those interviews were more than mere conversations; they were duels. Before the powerful politicians realized that they were fighting under unequal conditions--for she was allowed to ask questions but they were not--they were already on the floor of the ring, KO'ed."
“I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.”- Oriana Fallaci 1930-2006
"A great Italian and brave writer has died who has led a life full of passion, full of love, with great civil courage," Ferruccio De Bortoli, editor-in-chief of Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper, told Reuters.

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Post by Arcadia » September 19th, 2006, 1:27 pm

In the late seventies or early eighties she said that every argentine had an "enano fascista" inside. The frase caused revuelo here (I guess which of the two words had more weight..!).
I remember her big round dark lentes and her heavy straigh hair.

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Post by stilltrucking » September 20th, 2006, 2:26 am

Back in the nineteen seventies Baltimore was being pressured to hire women police officers. The police chief at the time was resisting the move; he did not think women were up to the challenges of the job. His comment was, “women are just god’s puffs of fluff.”

Oriana was one tuff puff of fluff.

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