Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian tradition, and not the combination of Christianity and 19th Century politics which they have for the most part been handed, the Orient may become a great democratic power. The Orient needs a democracy whose rights are protected by religion against the likelihood of degenerating into a dictatorship. The opportunity for Christian missions there is seven or eight times-in some places 100 times-what it was before...
...fight the Russians. . . .' When we try to pin down such an opinion, we rarely get satisfaction. As often as not, what we get is a knowing look and a brush-off remark." Actually, said Talk No. 55, Communist ideals "are directly opposite to the stated ideals of fascist dictatorship, and their hope is to drop the appurtenances of dictatorship in the process of democratic evolution...
Last week-two years and 127 booklets later-the U.S. Army started wearing a knowing look itself. In Army Talk No. 180 soldiers not only are reminded that "the 'transitional' [Communist] dictatorship in Russia is still in effect after 30 years," but are plainly told that U.S. Communists, whose first loyalty is to the Soviet Union, now "seek the downfall of the American system of government." The new booklet's cover shows the hammer & sickle casting a dark shadow over the Statue of Liberty...
...Nigger of the Narcissus, shows how heady a wine the English language may be for a foreign writer of parts who has thoroughly acquired it. Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov's second novel in English (he has written seven in Russian), is one of the most intelligent nightmares of dictatorship in modern fiction. It is also a lip-smacking over the flavors of English prose to rouse the tired syntax in 10,000 editorials. Nabokov's style glimmers with reflections of many great styles (Gogol's, Flaubert's, Joyce's) and yet is distinctly...
...Germany, to Russia and, in certain aspects, to the U.S. The frightened faculty of his university call on Philosopher Krug to intercede for their institution with the new dictator, Paduk (nicknamed the Toad), who was a clammy schoolmate of Krug's 30 years before. Krug refuses; the dictatorship goes...