Word: totalitarian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gordon believes that the organized parents and educators of the U.S. can make children's radio grow up and quit playing cops & robbers. The time is at hand, she says, for a few pleasant changes. She suggests : >- More time for children's programs. (Totalitarian countries, according to her figures, devote 75% of all radio time to children; the U.S., between...
...totalitarian system which roused, armed and incited our enemies against us, as well as the systematic coalition of private interests which in France has acted in opposition to national interests, must once & for all be overthrown...
Warmest defenders of The Moon are Novelist Pearl Buck, Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, Dorothy Thompson, Book Reviewer Lewis Gannett. Gannett called the "totalitarian crusade" against the story "a depressing example of wartime hysteria." Said Dorothy Thompson: "I know dozens of German officers who were thoroughly mature when last I enjoyed friendly relations with them, and they were just like [Colonel Lanser].... The enormous power in Mr. Steinbeck's drama is that it is not an attack on Nazis. It is an attack on Naziism." Meanwhile The Moon is Down is doing quite nicely. As a novel, it has sold...
Retailers worried even more about the price-control records they would have to keep for the 90,000 enforcers. But this was just a trifle. The plain fact was that price control is necessarily regimentation, and therefore requires totalitarian methods. The U.S. might as well get used...
...Japan last week appeared what looked like another attempt at a single, totalitarian, political party. The first such attempt, formed after the dissolving of previous parties in 1940, was the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. But it included too many disputatious, old-line politicos to achieve any real unity...