Word: authoritiarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed by long years of increasing harrassment and official vilification. In the America of the late 20th century, it is unlikely that a dogmatic ideological totalitarianism will ever take root. But the apathy in moral questions to which a pluralistic society may so quickly lead is more insidious than authoritiarian strictures, but it is not less dangerous. At a time when, weary of useless strife and a long war waged in vain, the emphasis, particularly at the university, is on the equivalent value of a wide variety of life styles, on relativism and tolerance--or indifference--on calmness and objectivity...
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