Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call that peonage, then a lot of us would like to be in it." But Gardella had one answer to that: his salary with the Giants had ranged from $1,850 to $4,000. Judge Jerome Frank of the court of appeals had another: "Only the totalitarian-minded will believe that higher pay excuses virtual slavery...
...foreign invasion, disputed successions, revolting colonies, endemic syphilis, impoverished soil, masonic intrigues, revolutions, restorations, cabals, juntas, pronunciamentos, liberations, constitutions, coups d'état, dictatorships, assassinations, agrarian reforms, popular elections, foreign intervention, repudiation of loans, inflations of currency, trade unions, massacres, arson, atheism, secret societies." It has become a totalitarian republic whose dictator is popular because he kept it out of World...
...importance of these classifications in a totalitarian state is obvious. A Hungarian applying for a job, a marriage license, a business permit, a ration card, or anything requiring public regulation will be dealt with according to the color and contents of his card...
Having repudiated the two totalitarian extremes, Dos Passos faced the tough job of making the next novel in his series a defense of his liberal values. Next week, after delays caused by Dos Passos' war reporting and a highway accident which took his wife's life and cost him an eye, that novel will come out. The Grand Design contains the expected defense of liberalism, but it speaks in a worried, hesitant, uncertain voice in which there is little of the power of U.S.A...
...applying the dialectic to the Communist Party, Stalin justifies the party's steel discipline and its merciless purges. Because the party embodies "scientific" truth, the party must be "monolithic," totalitarian, a centrally controlled army under military discipline. A party comrade who judges a situation "incorrectly" becomes a gun turned against the revolution...