Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While in Poland, he traveled extensively, and interviewed leading Marxists in various parts of the country. He reached the conclusion that Poland is not governed by a totalitarian regime, though it certainly is not a democratic one. Such essential tenets of a totalitarian state as a strong monolithic party organization, a secret police, and above all, a society closed to free discussion and ruled by fear, he found lacking...
...first the book reads like a suspense tale of survival, told with a sort of totalitarian recall-minute details of rocks, water, limpets, seaweed are forced on the reader, until Lieut. Martin's every movement is seen as in a microscope of time. Swiftly, the novel makes clear that what matters is not Martin's survival but the kind of man who is or is not to survive. Also, Novelist Golding makes clear a subtle philosophical notion-that one can change the past by what one thinks about it. On civvy street Martin had been an actor (professionally...
...every color and background are awakening to the immeasurable worth of a free way of life. They are coming to know that through education and enterprise this free way of life can be possible for all. They are revolted by the brutal use of force to repress freedom under totalitarian dictatorships...
...current contest between ideologies for the minds of men has done us, too, a signal, if unexpected, service. It has cast in sharp relief what we have and support, against the backdrop of the terrible tyranny of totalitarian governments and their ruthless domination over the lives of human beings. In defending the ways of a free people we have been forced to compare our systems, so that all who are able to learn may make a choice...
Jesuit Weigel's objective statements concerning the Roman Catholics' small contribution to U.S. scholarship [July 8] are to be highly commended. Could the reason for this be that the totalitarian nature of Roman Catholicism, with its thought-control mechanisms of censorship, blacklisting, "excommunication" threats, etc., creates an atmosphere in which the necessary spirit of truly free inquiry cannot exist...