Word: absolutist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fanatic or an absolutist, declared Farber during his contempt trial before Judge Theodore Trautwein. But, he added, "I believe the First Amendment means what it says about freedom of the press." Editorialized the Times: "A court, no matter how benign, is to us an arm of the state. A promise to protect a source is a promise to protect it against any third party...
...little down on paper as possible.' That an explicit and clear verbal order for genocide was given by Hitler to Himmler is testified to by many, many people who were in a position to know." Among other things, Waite adds, it seems profoundly implausible that in the absolutist Third Reich, anyone but Hitler could have exercised the authority to murder more than 6 million people, in the process employing badly needed transport facilities and millions of work hours. Helmut Krausnick, director of Munich's Institute of Contemporary History, has concluded: "The extermination policy was decided upon by Hitler...
...would be "to expose and repudiate" Mme. Mao's followers totally and "move toward the goal of the great order." Behind Hua's rhetoric lay an admission that few if any of the professed goals of China's new leadership can be realized until Hua establishes a Mao-like absolutist rule over the nation. To do this, analysts noted, the new Chairman needs the army: only the generals who supported Hua in his bid for power last autumn can keep him there...
...surprising that talk of sin is what we Northerners are hearing from the South this election year; fundamentalist religion and absolutist values come naturally to a region whose dominant social sensibility is even now shaped by humiliation and betrayal...
Hentoff, however, is a First Amendment absolutist. Many would consider censoring a movie if harm could be proved, either to the user, or to the larger society. Though the two main concerns about pornography?its effect on the user, its impingement on the rest of society?often merge, they need to be considered separately...