Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disturbing statistic: of 2,700,000 youths from 21 to 25 voting for the first time, 1,200,000 voted for the totalitarian left, less than a million for the democratic center. Palmiro Togliatti's Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists had been expected only to hold their own. In the last days of the campaign, a U.S. Senate committee hearing 4,000 miles away gave the leftists effective ammunition for crumbling one of the pillars of De Gasperi's campaign-his ability to keep U.S. aid flowing to Italy. Communist newspapers and orators recited...
...expected to act this way wished they know that college officials, that group in education most prone to compromise academic freedom in the past, will stand behind them. Our universities have a responsibility to the public and themselves to expel teachers who have broken the law, or whose totalitarian beliefs so twist their teaching and research to render them unfit for their profession. But they have an equal responsibility to make sure the implication of unfitness that springs from use of the Fifth Amendment, membership in subversive groups, or any other indirect evidence is backed up by fact before...
...York City, Oatis carefully spelled out the basis for the espionage charge, and thereby brought into focus the difference between press freedom in democratic and totalitarian countries. In Prague, he said, he had done just what any other correspondent does, i.e., tried to check information with official sources, sometimes at the U.S. embassy. "But at no time," said Oatis, "did I act as an espionage agent of the embassy in the sense that this term is understood in Western countries." The Czechs had imprisoned him, he said, because, "some things that generally are considered in Western countries to be normal...
Over the few brief years of democracy his coalition government has wobbled and slimmed away under the pressures from the totalitarian extremes and the attrition of responsibility...
Last week the magazine. II Tempo forecast that the coming election will be very close: about 13,500,000 votes for the Christian Democratic coalition, and 12,500,000 for the totalitarian extremes...