Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Drucker, sharply distinguishes the U.S. from Europe. Even in European countries where anticlericalism is vigorous, Drucker points out, there are still such relics of "establishment" as government salaries for the clergy, government subsidies to church schools or foreign missions, government support for religious instructors in public schools. Only totalitarian countries are really free from these state-church carryovers, and these have merely substituted their state creeds instead...
...very rarely labeled students as immature, except, perhaps, in the case of i.e. Clubs are not a "negative force in the college, deadening controversies which should be spontaneous, institutionalizing social conflicts, sapping intellectual morale ... in the undergraduate group as a whole." This is so untrue as to smack of totalitarian scapegoatism. Unless the editors of i.e. spend a great deal of time with "clubbies," it is difficult to see how the clubs can affect their morale. The clubs may be a symbol of hypocrisy, but this does not mean that they are the root of all prestige-consciousness. When...
...seekers rises by 2,000,000 every year. Yet in its first Five-Year Plan India managed to boost food output by 18%, to make itself (given good weather) largely self-sufficient for food. Across the Himalayas, where a rival drama of planned advance is being enacted, the totalitarian techniques of Chinese Communism can claim no such gains on the land...
...foreign policy as well, he continued, the Republicans support the basic Democratic concepts in recognizing the need for cooperation with "like-minded foreign nations to protect our own national interests," and in acknowledging that the existence of a major totalitarian power is a threat to our national interests and its expansion "must be resisted and thwarted...
Despite the contentment of its unorganized workers, the company has been a steady target for the politically conscious island labor unions, and these unions have the powerful outside backing of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., whose roving European Ambassador Irving Brown argues: "When we attack totalitarian systems, we can't justify an American company in Cyprus refusing its workers the right to organize." The company now finds itself beset by pickets, by recently raised taxes (from 35% to 42½% of net profits) and by the uncertainty of Cyprus' political future. Says the company's undeterred resident director, Robert...