Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...details came out through the totalitarian screen of secrecy, and it was hard to tell how much of Red China's agricultural troubles were political, how much natural. But obviously, the disaster reports were one way to prepare Red China's 650 million for food shortages this winter. The 1959 crop yields are reported sharply below normal; the usual propaganda boasts of "record harvests in China's great leap forward" are notably missing this summer, and a People's Daily editorial growls that "an inclination to avoid hardship has found breeding ground among some cadres"-leading...
History will surely sweep away all the lies and confusions of the time and will show that Earl Warren is a truly great man in the beautiful tradition of American democracy, and that Richard Nixon is a conniving, cheap demagogue-a perfect totalitarian. HORACE SCHWARTZ Mill Valley, Calif...
...Urals & Beyond. Before he left Washington for Moscow, Richard Nixon had worried that Khrushchev might snub him and permit only brief, formal contacts. Instead, Nixon saw Khrushchev more often, on more intimate terms, than any American visitor to Moscow before him. A totalitarian unused to real debate, Khrushchev grew increasingly amiable despite Nixon's back talk-or perhaps because...
...most grand Shakespeareans have agreed with the Romans, and exiled him. But it was in a 1938 Old Vic production of Coriolanus that a stamping, ranting Olivier bulled his way to fame. This time his performance is subtler. His Coriolanus is prickly in triumph, venomous in defeat, an uncompromising totalitarian. But Olivier also builds a credible, Nietzschean human being, a sarcastic soldier-aristocrat and sour-eyed supersnob of the type well known to the British. Wrote the London Times: "The acting of Sir Laurence Olivier has grown marvelously in power and beauty. He plays it just as well...
...have added that those who did speak out against McCarthy sometimes helped him by exaggerating his importance. To Rovere himself. McCarthy remains "in many ways the most gifted demagogue" in U.S. history, with a terribly sure "access to the dark places of the American mind." But he was no totalitarian, not even a reactionary; he was a nihilist, "a revolutionist without any revolutionary vision." Anything but a conformist, he attacked the Army, the Protestant clergy, the press, the two major parties. He was, says Rovere, ''closer to the hipster than to the Organization...