Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present," said Dr. Kelley, "our general approach is opposed to the totalitarian pattern and emphasizes freedom of speech, lack of obsessive rituals and minimal demands on behavior. We have been overenthusiastic in our refusal to teach control lest we traumatize ... I should like to suggest that the foundations of democracy can be achieved even while total freedom of behavior may be curtailed. The ideal solution would be neither too much nor too little training suppression. Since nobody knows how much is too much, if we err, let it be on the side of potential neuroses. [Perhaps thus we can] make...
There is a third course which is broader and bigger than these. It is to accept integration as an enlightened Christian policy of social justice and a way of life which preserve human rights against totalitarian tyranny in a rapidly changing world...
...public school teacher occupies a leading position in the community, and should be held to a high degree of moral obligation. Yet the paramount consideration at this time, in particular, should probably be the necessity to preserve individual rights. "Because of the mood of our time and the totalitarian menace, we should emphasize opposition to that mood--the rights of the individual...
...great political danger of the present time, Kirk said in opening the debate, is the growth of totalitarian societies. He attacked the liberal drift toward "repressive collectivism" and the "evil benefits of the welfare state" on the grounds that, although immediately beneficial, they tended to change society for the worse in the long...
...added, "Dr. Kirk is wrong when he suggests that we can inch our way into a totalitarian government. History provides no warrant for this belief. It has been the weak, rather than the strong, governments which have attracted totalitarianism...