Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these dark days into which the world has lurched, the cause of true scholarship has been obscured more than many other fundamental rights of free regimes. In totalitarian states, the searchers after truth have been hounded from existence by States which prefer to create false sciences rather than adapt their beliefs to legitimate knowledge. But in China the scholars have more literally faced booming guns and gleaming bayonets. For the impetuous Japanese onrush has destroyed universities as well as arsenals and the comparatively small band of Chinese students has had to retreat to the hinterlands and there start work anew...
...newspapers consulted, only 13 refused Harvard permission to copy their publications. Newspapers from Germany and England, France and Italy, Russia, China, and Japan are alike being recorded. No objection has been heard from the organs of totalitarian states. Films of "La Vanguardia" of Barcelona are still being received at Widener...
...stage, Idiot's Delight presented the fragmentary romance between an itinerant U. S. hoofer and the fake-Russian mistress of a munitions maker, in an Italian border hotel on the eve of a European war. All this added up to an amusing and superficially penetrating indictment of totalitarian politics. Whenever Hollywood touches material of this sort, it stirs up a tremendous agitation about whether or not the cinema will be courageous enough to retain the meaning of the original. In the case of Idiot's Delight, this agitation was augmented by the fact that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after...
Stressing the need for preserving intellectual freedom in this country to offset the losses to free thought in the totalitarian states of Europe, ten speakers, headed by Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; Daniel L. Marsh, President of Boston University; and Mildred H. McAfee, President of Wellesley College, celebrated Lincoln Day last night in an open meeting at Sanders Theatre...
Miss McAfee held that the totalitarian states differ from this country on two basic principles: one, that truth is stronger than error; the other, that we can legitimately and reasonably respect our fellow...