Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would one-party politics, if it came, be just a phase in the cyclical fortunes of American parties, or would it signify a step toward the increasing number of essentially one-party systems which are emerging in both democratic and totalitarian countries everywhere...
...following of nearly 1,000,000, have sprung up to challenge the New York City board of education's policy favoring integration. One, calling itself the Parents and Taxpayers, is led by a formidable woman lawyer, Mrs. Rosemary Gunning, who vows: "We're not going to have totalitarian decrees forced down our throats." P.A.T. & Co. mobilized 15,000 mothers on a sleety day last March to descend on city hall and sent 500 women swarming onto the floor of the state assembly...
...most important and dangerous rivals, Defense Minister General Khiem, who got a fourth star and decided to throw in his lot with the Chairman-for the time being at least. Asked whether he was now a dictator, Khanh replied quizzically: "For six months I have been head of a totalitarian regime without being totalitarian. I can head a dictatorial regime without being a dictator." But it would take more than subtle semantics to make Khanh's new powers stick...
...Criminal Adventure." "The regime is now moving irresistibly down the dangerous path toward fascism and totalitarian rule," he said. "Such a regime must be abolished." Khider sided openly with the armed rebellions of Ait Ahmed and Chaabani...
Barzun is peevish about so many things: "the mixing of peoples, the spate of democratic and totalitarian harangues, the burst of inventions and new sciences, the spawning of processes, abstractions and manufactured goods, the freedom to play with language that literacy and advertising encourage." He is even upset that people are living longer these days. "Unwanted by the business world, unwanted by their younger families, lacking authority, respect and responsibility," American oldsters may as well leave their Florida benches and march into the sea. Barzun has an irritating habit of telling other people how to live...