Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holmes and Arsene Lupin, the thriller was a mild, usually non-murderous affair in which there was nothing more bestial than a hound with phosphorescent jowls. Today, when "emancipation is complete [and] Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs," the pulp thriller is "a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age . . . a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombings of civilians . . . torture to obtain confessions . . . execution without trial . . . drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics . . . bribery and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable when they are done...
...Poland] is not quite a dictatorship, although the Council scene bore an ominous resemblance to totalitarian parliaments. Mikolajczyk, who would win an overwhelming victory in any free election held in Poland today, and who claims to have the backing of at least 75% of the Polish people in his demand for an early free election, was completely and impotently alone with his handful of delegates...
...Power to the Parties! Leftists praised their document as a fresh line in the Republican revolutionary tradition of France. The Rightist Paris Monde called it a reflection of the totalitarian tendencies of the time...
...death by administering poison. More routine charges: Stalin is a traitor to the revolution and to Communism because 1) he seized control of the Bolshevik Party machine and substituted ward politics for the inspired dynamics of proletarian revolution; 2) he turned the dictatorship of the proletariat into a totalitarian state; 3) he declared himself Lenin's heir and best disciple though Lenin, before his death, had broken with Stalin and repudiated him; 4) he issued history a false passport by revising the entire record of the Russian revolution, eliminating Trotsky and making himself the military hero of the civil...
...ready to talk, regally, about her love for democracy, about Sur, about herself, her dislike for totalitarian government. But she talks most easily about the growth of her love and knowledge of Argentina. Said she this week: "Before I only knew Buenos Aires province. Now I have discovered the rest of the country...