Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent months LIFE-like Swiat (World) magazine has run excerpts from Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's prophetic novel about the sterile lives of "unpersons" in a totalitarian society. Another magazine carried a lengthy review of ex-Communist Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, hailed his savage exposition of Communist terrorism as "a very thorough analysis of Stalinist methods." Other papers have run glowing stories on the "truly democratic" U.S. and Western prosperity. The Culture Ministry's official organ recently published an article on the U.S. economy by a Communist official who noted sardonically that he "prefers...
...about World War II were written in bitterness. Two deal with ill-fated ventures on the Allied side, the third with Japan's defeat in the air. Each of them underlines a tragic fact that has again been proved in Hungary: in a time of total war and totalitarian regimes, heroism is not enough...
...army, church, party. He plays off the Monarchists against his Falangist party bosses, leaving both in doubt as to his successor. Last September Falange Secretary-General José Luis de Arrese and Agricultural Minister Rafael Cavestany, alarmed by Spain's drift, presented Franco with draft laws for a totalitarian state headed by the Falange Party. Franco stalled. A fortnight ago Arrese and Cavestany resigned. But faced with the unrest that is stirring throughout Spain (riots in Seville as well as boycotts in Barcelona), the Falange bosses last week withdrew their resignations...
...call the able-bodied refugees "heroes." I should think the heroes are those who have remained in Hungary to fight. If we in this country were oppressed by a totalitarian government, and I fled to England while my compatriots fought and died, would I be a hero to the cause of freedom? What would I be if my wife and I fled leaving a nine-year-old daughter behind? A hero...
Friedrich and Brzezinski define totalitarian dictatorship as a historically unique form of government, which can arise only within the context of democracy and modern technology...