Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Return to Paradise. A totalitarian South Sea island gets an imaginative helping of love and democracy from Gary Cooper (TIME, July...
...Dropped a Gómez scheme to write a totalitarian constitution, and named Liberals as well as Conservatives to a commission which will refurbish the present...
...right of everyone" to a job, fair wages, adequate housing, education and "a continuous improvement of living conditions." These goals are desirable, but if a government determinedly set out to provide them "for everyone" (which it could not do anyway), it would have to become even more totalitarian than, say, the Soviet Union...
...tension in American academic and civil-service life at the present time springs from the intransigence of Senator McCarthy on the one hand, but on the other hand from the widespread adherence, amongst the younger university men in America, to the monstrous falsehood (and to the belief in a totalitarian state, which it implies) that all human actions, political, cultural or religious, arise ultimately from economic causes...
...Eight years of striving to Bolshevize East Germany in the Soviet image failed in the uprising of June 17. In the westernmost, and in many ways the most strategic, outpost of the Kremlin orbit, people rose up, without arms or organization or leaders, against the whole strength of a totalitarian regime and the Soviet army of occupation. They were suppressed, and not one inch of ground was wrenched from beneath the Red flag. But in their audacity, the East Germans 1) exposed their bosses as scarecrows propped up only by Soviet guns, 2) obliged the Kremlin to promise a reversal...