Word: absolutistic
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...novel drives this despondent dogma home with such fierce insistence that readers may need a few minutes' reflection to shake off its spell. But in the end, it will be seen that Green has trapped both Kaspan and Meddow in equally futile obsessions with absolutist quests-the one for absolute freedom and the other for absolute love...
Here, in capsule, was the implacable Left. Much of Laski's audience belonged to the placable Left-New Dealers who preached a muddled "middle way" for its own sake, without much effort to formulate principles. Yet they cheered Laski, the absolutist, who sufficiently relaxed his absolutism to make a deep bow to a compromiser, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the "supreme friend of democracy and freedom...
...famed as a fence-sitting liberal sheet, placarded its cover: FOR A DECLARATION OF WAR, devoted four pleading pages to the argument: "It is plain in this midsummer the United States has reached the opportunity for a great decision, which may never come again." Denying it had ever been "absolutist in pacifism," the New Republic added: "We were right to hesitate at first. . . . But now we do understand. ... If it is our war enough so that we must pour our material wealth into the scales on one side only, then it is our war to fight as well...
...State is not an absolute or absolutist State!" he cried. "Our State is organized, human, attached to the realities of life" through the representation of Italian employes and employers in the National Council of Corporations. "The decay of (laissez faire) Capitalism coincides with the decay of Socialism. The Socialist parties of Europe are in fragments...
There was a tremendous revelation of the degree of intolerance, the unscientific absolutist dictatorship of religious feeling, of the legislators and people of Tennessee in the Scopes Trial. It was an example of unassailable belief which seemed inconceivable in this United States of today; and hopefully it was thought confined to Tennessee. A similar anti-evolution bill failed of passage in Florida. But Arkansas has gone further than to place an anti-evolution bill on the ballot for referendum. The municipal government of Little Rock has given unimpeachable evidence that agitation against such a measure is not there the inalienable...