Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edgar Vincent, press representative of the BOG, said that in Nono's opera, Inollrranza 60, there is "nothing political at all, except that the opera is against intolerance." He added that Nono's works have been banned in Russia because they are "anti-totalitarian...
Indeed, law and order are maintained with brilliant efficiency in totalitarian states. Order is only a virtue if it preserves just laws; and laws are only just if they are made with the assent of the governed, not the governors...
...Hassan; he says Hassan seems to dictate portions of his novels. Vying to usurp Hassan's dominion over earth are lesser but formidable rival gods, including 1) the lecherous ones of Venus, who are dosing man with the Orgasm Drug to draw him into fatal orgies; 2) the totalitarian of the Crab Galaxy, who have ready giant ovens to bake humans into insectlike critters in a hivelike commune; and 3) the plain old hophead gods of Uranus, who have become radioactive themselves and are plotting to frizzle Earthmen with their own radioactivity...
...done. One of the strong assumptions of Soviet studies here has been that once a Soviet dictator is firmly entrenched in power he cannot be removed from within except as a result of grave mental disability or death. This unexpected succession throws the neatly drawn "characteristics of totalitarian dictatorship" out of order...
...important, sheer size creates pervasive, damaging psychological exploitation. In Goodman's view, the contemporary American is forced to make a bad trade--he gives up community, good sex and decent communication for money and status in the "Organized System." In short, Goodman argues that our times have become effectively totalitarian even though our political system...