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Word: totalitarian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, assumed that the state was made for man. The founding fathers, suggests Bruckberger, had the uncommon sense to recognize that the people "have no right to deify and worship themselves." Thus the U.S. was spared the terrible idolatry of the 20th century's false god, the totalitarian state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hope of the World | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...nexus of both pragmatism and natural law in diplomacy is the secret weapon against totalitarian regimes," the U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand told alumni of the Law School and Graduate Schools yesterday at Harkness Commons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russell, Bush Speak At Graduate School Luncheon Meetings | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...mysterious thing," Poggioli commented, "that it is virtually impossible to continue writing avant-garde literature. under a totalitarian regine." The reason for this, Poggioli said, is that any literature written under such a regime must reflect a reversion to tradition, and, "since the tradition upheld under the Soviet regime is cheap, Zhivago represents a search for something else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symposia Held for Alumni | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

Further, "it is paradoxical that under a totalitarian regime, an aesthetic deviant has a more difficult time than a political deviant," Poggiolo commented. "You don't create avant-garde works alone in the cellar of a Moscow or Leningrad building--you need a little group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symposia Held for Alumni | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...resistence as a political weapon, he is difficult to accuse of treasonous activity--unless one pushes this concept to truly paranoid extremes. Like the recent de-integrating of four universities in South Africa, this move by the government represents an arbitrary limiting of intellectual activity rarely found outside of totalitarian countries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Have Speech--Can't Travel | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

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