Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that rages across the sea. If Germany wins, we are told by alarmists, we will be threatened with invasion; yet most military observers say such invasion is virtually impossible. If Germany wins, we are warned by the heralds of doom, we shall be forced to gear our economy to totalitarian requirements and Nazify ourselves; yet this has a hollow ring in view of our relative self-sufficiency...
...makes unexpected bedfellows in heaven as well as on earth. Because totalitarian thinking threatens U. S. democracy as much as totalitarian force, front-rank scientists and philosophers gathered last week for an epoch-making three-day conference with outstanding churchmen-Protestants, Catholics, Jews. The place: Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. The purpose: to unify the thought of democracy, make it a united spiritual and intellectual force. The cast: seven Nobel laureates, a dozen college presidents, a host of philosophers, scientists, teachers, theologians. Altogether, over 600 representatives from 165 institutions attended, made a gallant effort to piece together the tree...
...Church's insistence on the dignity of man runs counter to the totalitarian belief that man was made for the State, and its decline has aided the dictatorships. Last week the scientists took a step toward the Church's view, with their fellow delegates condemned the gods of Marxian economic determinism and Fascist racism and nationalism. They proclaimed: "The conference was unanimous in its conviction that modem civilization can only be preserved by a recognition of the supreme worth and moral responsibility of the individual human person...
...curriculum. As a result, "our sons are cold to the agonies of the great tradition to which our culture belongs, indifferent to the fate of British democracy, though our national fate is inseparable from it, and are ready to call a policy which will leave our democracy to face totalitarian ruthlessness alone and isolated, a policy or 'realism...
Vehemently denouncing the Nazi system of government and aggressive warfare, Perry said that "the institutions and purposes of the totalitarian powers are in precise opposition of ours . . . are there any business men who think they would prefer the totalitarian deal to the American deal, whether of the Democratic or Republican model...