Word: hitlerian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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National maturity, sanity and compassion, we are again reminded, do not come readily. In our ubiquitous display and near deification of Old Glory, might we not unwittingly be borrowing a page from Hitlerian Germany? Respect, like love, cannot be dictated-or produced by fiat...
...extremists "who would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down." In Pusey's angry view, such agitators-specifically, the S.D.S.-use techniques akin to those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, for whom Pusey served as a favorite target. He cited the Hitlerian tactic of "the big lie"-in this case, the radicals' claim "that the university is a hopelessly bigoted, reactionary force in our society which serves the interest of a hideous military-industrial complex...
...film progresses, Lieut. Minderbinder descends from mess-hall hustler to full-time racketeer. In a crude and overdrawn caricature, the loutish blond fly-boy suddenly becomes a Hitlerian symbol who bombs American bases in a deal with the Germans and sells stocks in the war because it is good business. Here Nichols?like Heller?cannot let hell enough alone, and Engine Charlie's oft-quoted G.M. dictum is paraphrased "What's good enough for M-M Enterprises is good...