Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does so," he said. "It will help to counter the alarming trend toward the establishment in America of the pattern of thought control which is characteristic of the totalitarian state...
...United States have nothing to hide, but their independence as corporate, scholarly organizations is of supreme importance. One need hardly argue this point in view of the dramatic examples of what occurred under the Nazi and Fascist regimes as well as what is now going on in totalitarian nations...
...Totalitarian China under Mao Tse-tung is set on an expansionist course. This path runs counter to Russia's design for mastery and may precipitate war between the two, or insurrection, according to Benjamin I. Schwartz, assistant professor of Far Eastern History...
There could be a terrifying play in what the fantasies of a Tarkingtonian small boy could give rise to in a totalitarian society: the scene in The Emperor's Clothes where two goons grill the father about Hoot Gibson's war on "the cattle barons is a frightening reductio ad absurdum of police state methods. But what might have been a brilliantly sardonic social satire has first been squeezed inside a domestic framework and then dropped from the picture itself. Though the family story has its own realistic interest, it is never made real. Mixing and garnishing...
...matter, which we now know to be one, are both amoral. Man only is moral or immoral. We have only to reflect that if all the large nations of the world were led today by moral men, instead of immoral ones, [development of] atomic energy . . . would not require such totalitarian legislation as this...