Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither saint nor leader, Kral, as the priest says, is "a volunteer in the service of Love." Such a man, merely by being alive, becomes an intolerable challenge to the totalitarian state...
Some, particularly the more vociferous elements in the Catholic Church, have assailed President Conant for his stand. They contend that he has called for uniformity in education, which they claim is basically "totalitarian." We feel that they have grossly misinterpreted the President's remarks. He did not say that education should have only uniformity, but insisted that it could have diversity at the same time. "The time may conceivably come when a state or the Federal Government may jeopardize this concept," President Conant admits, but he goes on, "as far as secondary education is concerned, I do not detect...
...than one a year since its liberation from Spain in 1825. Men the world over remember its 1946 rebellion, and the photographs of Dictator Gualberto Villarroel hanging from a lamppost (which is still a tourist attraction in La Paz). Last week, the heirs of Villarroel, fanatical members of the totalitarian Movement of National Revolution (M.N.R.), clawed their way back...
Argentina. A notable record of democratic advance was broken by the 1943 army revolution that brought Perón to power. Re-elected in 1951, Dictator Perón, with his wife, runs Latin America's only big-time totalitarian regime...
...said, he was a $40-a-week stage manager and bit actor dreading "the depression and the ever-growing power of Hitler. The streets were full of unemployed and shaken men." The Communists claimed to have a cure, so Kazan joined up. But he found that the party represented totalitarian thought control. In 1936, Kazan quit...