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Word: totalitarian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prizewinner, who had called for an end to H-bomb testing because of the strontium 90 peril. Is it not preferable. Dr. Libby gently asked Dr. Schweitzer, to accept this small risk rather than "the far greater risk, to freedom-loving people everywhere," of slackening "our defenses against the totalitarian forces"-until some method of safeguarded disarmament has been achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Peril of Strontium 90 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

Truncheon for Totalitarians. Correspondent Dubois has struck his most resounding blows for unfettered reporting through the LA.P.A. press freedom committee, which he helped to organize in 1951 and has headed ever since at the insistence of fellow members. The committee investigates and documents press-government relations throughout Latin America and wields an effective public-relations truncheon by dropping from membership all newspapers that are proved to be Communist-or fascist-influenced "or have any other totalitarian tendencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Freedom Fighter | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...prevailing conflict of ideas. In the books of the '20s the disenchanted and emancipated young confronted their hypocritical elders. In the '30s the worker at the barricades shook his fist at the bloated capitalist. In the '40s the man of freedom locked wills with the totalitarian zealot. In the '50s the basic confrontation - which all along has preoccupied writers, including W. H. Auden, Graham Greene. T. S. Eliot-may well be that of the psychiatrist and the man of God. Germany's Friedrich Deich. 49, is not professionally up to the literary company his idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Physician, Heal Thyself | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Reporting on the conditions in Communist China, the Nieman fellow said that "although there is a totalitarian regime with complete control on every level of society, there has been a vast improvement of economic conditions and, in the past year, a quiet liberalization movement reflecting an eased world situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Worthy Calls His Passport Fight 'A Showdown' on Press Rights | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...frankly describes the regime as totalitarian, and notes critically that people "say what is safe to say. I don't know whether they believe it or not." His reports indicate that the Chinese national character has given a slightly different tone to communism, that while it remains the "same system, it is less noticeably oppressive and regimented" than the Russian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Newspaper Curtain | 2/13/1957 | See Source »

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