Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowding of the planet means authoritarian rule because "the central government is forced to assume additional responsibilities for the general welfare." Wrote Huxley: "It is a pretty safe bet that, twenty years from now, all the world's overpopulated and underdeveloped countries will be under some form of totalitarian rule." While man is cluttering the earth with his birth rate, he is also following a "Will to Order," the fundamental wish for harmony that softens him for the propagandists of authority...
...glamour of office, he could, perhaps-it is a small chance-bring back the only organized party in the country to a righteous path of service and sacrifice." But instead, "Mr. Nehru, by his decision, has taken away that little glimmer and left us in the darkness of a totalitarian future. Oh! Weep for Adonis...
Shocked and chagrined at criticism of President Pusey because of position regarding Memorial Chapel. Only in totalitarian societies are problems of religious distinctions solved by abolishing religion altogether. Grateful that Harvard continues liberal tradition of separating Church and College. Alan M. Stroock '29, Chairman of the Board, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Twentieth Century: "Our truth was a half-truth, our fight a battle in the mist . . . and those who suffered and died in it were pawns in a complicated game between two totalitarian pretenders for world domination." So wrote ex-Communist Novelist Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler after he came home from Spain's civil war. As CBS's corrosive documentary, War in Spain, made grimly clear, the pretenders were Hitler and Mussolini on one side and Stalin on the other, and the game that divided a nation against itself was a grisly dress rehearsal for the greatest...
...letter written some years ago by Moumié to Molotov (when he was Foreign Minister), in which Moumié admits that he is a Communist. Like all Communist-front parties, the UPC poses as a truly democratic party fighting "colonial suppression," but in fact its methods are totalitarian...