Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steeped in the common-sense science of the Victorian Age, the public thinks of scientists as dangerous warlocks. "The popular picture of the scientist," says Bronowski, "lends itself to the basic totalitarian tricks which exploit the insecurity of the ignorant: an awe of the specialist, a hidden hatred of him, and a cleft between his way of thinking and theirs...
TWICE the United States has saved France from the menace of a totalitarian regime. Without America, we would probably know the Nazi regime. Without the maintenance of American troops in Europe, we would probably be under the regime of Eastern Europe. However, from [respected novelists] to the intellectual "mandarins"' of the Left Bank, a majority of French writers have returned from the U.S. with severe, if not cruel, reports. An America which was our ally, but with a power that was supposedly equal to ours, was a friend to us. An America which is too strong provokes withdrawal...
...minute went by. At 8:25, exactly three years after Evita died of cancer, bugles blared. After listening to a four-minute panegyric read by a dolorous radio announcer, the crowd shuffled silently past the balcony. Peron made no speech. There was none of the tone of totalitarian frenzy that usually went with Peron's balcony scenes in the past. The word had gone out to the followers: no shouting, no torches, no banners...
...process of law . . . The U.S. acted arbitrarily in undertaking to evict the Rudders. Their refusal to deny that they were members of any organizations on the [Attorney General's] consolidated list was not proof that they were members. Even proof that they were members of a 'totalitarian' organization, knowing nothing of its character, would be an arbitrary ground [for eviction...
...Durban, the Reconstituted Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa charged that Prime Minister J. G. Strydom "is doing everything in his power to enlist the aid of the Dutch Reformed Church to achieve a totalitarian state in South Africa," warned that South Africa is "being led toward a police state" by an Afrikaner brotherhood said to be backed by the major Dutch Reformed Churches...