Word: monolithism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need worry about. Schwarz stresses the external threat and power of Communism. Sometimes he overrates the Reds: to read or hear Schwarz, the Communists have never suffered a setback in their march toward world domination; the free world has never scored the slightest cold war success. Communism is a monolith without internal dissension. Nikita Khrushchev, while describing Stalin as a sadistic, megalomaniacal murderer, in his famous January 6, 1961 speech, was by Communist standards of virtue commending his old boss, not condemning him. Today, there is no such thing as an ideological split between Moscow and Peking; the notion that...
...clouds of language. Transplanted to the stage, they are long-wounded blabbers, who talk about themselves in cocktail party words that taste like the 14th anchovy. A few of Feiffer's targets have been pocked heavily by other satirists, and one blackout aimed at the telephone company, a monolith that fascinates all of the new comics, uses a punch line similar to one of Nichols' and May's. But it is not safe to smile comfortably as the actors poke fun at Freud, advertising or the CIA. Feiffer's models are the very sort of people...
...representative. Even if some unwise proposals come out of the Convention, the electorate will have a year to simmer down and strike them out in the referendum. These provisions make very small the possibility that a Convention would turn the government into a domineering glass-and-steel monolith, and it could well convert it into a structure suitable to the 20th century...
...such proposals founder on the shoals of one inescapable problem: with a totalitarian monolith, there can be no mutual trust. "Control systems are dependent upon an open society," says retiring AEC Chairman John McCone. "There can be no safe arrangement for the control of atomic or hydrogen weapons if countries such as the Soviet Union, its satellites and Red China insist upon secrecy...
Strangely enough, Goldwater is awake to the danger of union power, but not to that of big business. It is almost ludicrous to read, "When the United Automobile Workers demand a wage increase from the auto industry, a single monolith is pitted against a number of separate, competing companies." In practice, of course, it is often management that finds comfort in industry-wide bargaining, which eliminates the risk of one company suffering a crippling strike while its competitors continue business. And if we went Goldwater's way, General Motors might be a pretty impressive "single monolith" pitted against a solitary...