Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives backwards through time. Merlyn teaches through the magic of metamorphosis: he is continually changing the Wart into some animal or other. As a fish, the Wart learns self-preservation from a pike; as a hawk, he acquires courage. He gets a taste of the 20th century totalitarian state by spending time in an ant colony, whose anthem is Antland, Antland Over All. Almost by accident, he comes across Excalibur...
Throughout this area last week there was a rapid reshuffling of positions. The reason: Cambodia's Premier, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, suddenly abandoned his "active" (i.e., pro-Western) neutrality and recognized Red China. Sihanouk visited Red China two years ago and appeared impressed with China's totalitarian "vigor." But he was not stampeded into recognition then. Last month, Sihanouk wrote cogently in the American quarterly Foreign Affairs that "a prince and a former king must be well aware that the first concern of the Communists is to get rid of the king and the natural elite of any country...
...best two stories are by Tibor Dery. and his theme is the facelessness of oppression in totalitarian life. In Love, the guards at a Budapest prison inexplicably turn loose one "B," who has been in prison for seven years. But his crime is not known (it was "political"). On his discharge papers the line that should explain the reason for his release is left blank. How common such cases are in Hungary is made clear by the taxi driver who refuses to take the ex-prisoner's tip, the neighbor woman who offers him food and comfort. And when...
...beyond this point, Hunt declined to draw further comparisons, since the purposes of educational systems in the two countries are so divergent. Committed to molding "willing and unquestioning" servants of a totalitarian state, Soviet schools offer rigidly prescribed courses of study he said, with languages the only elective courses...
...Georgian Russell blasts McElroy's comments as a "totalitarian" warning that service chiefs "must conform or be purged." Russell postpones scheduled appearances of other chiefs until McElroy gives "clear and unequivocal" assurances that they can testify "in complete candor without being threatened overtly or covertly...