Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentration camp followed by years of enforced silence. Tidings, Wiechert's posthumous novel (first published in Germany in 1953) is the fruit of his musings during those brutal years. It is, in the publisher's words, "a Christian message for an age that is un-Christian and totalitarian...
...then, embroiled with a corrupt legislature and a Svengali-like adventurer, Kalakaua lost his grip; scandals raged as the spendthrift King kicked the public debt from $388,000 to $2,600,000 until, in 1887, he was forced to sign a new constitution stripping himself of his near-totalitarian powers...
...between a totalitarian state and a "Titotalitarian" one is so narrow that even a writ of habeas corpus cannot pass through it, but the Tito version may be more tempting to the satirist. In this book Anglo-Irish Novelist Lawrence Durrell, who once served with the British embassy in Belgrade, leaves his steamy Mideastern cabals (Balthazar, Justine) for airy Balkan spoofs. The eleven grotesque tales in Esprit de Corps (subtitled Sketches from Diplomatic Life) do not all come off, but the best of them extract a flavorsome slivovitz from the Titoesque...
...whether we as lawyers, judges and jurists cannot stir the conscience of the world into insisting that there shall be certain common decencies for all men in all lands." To some it might seem improbable that the conscience of the world would ever greatly affect the actions of totalitarian rulers. But the men who met in New Delhi last week had behind them the experience of one of history's most successful propagandists. Wrote Tom Paine 175 years ago: "An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot...
Molotov. "He let nothing escape him that appeared spontaneous. In Molotov, who was, and wanted to be, merely a perfectly adjusted cog in an implacable machine, I thought I had identified a complete success of the totalitarian system. I could feel the melancholy...