Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these terms he invented the conception of a revolutionary elite, above all moral law because it acted in the name of "the people." He proclaimed the abstract virtue of the "party" above all claims of kin or human obligation, and-generations before it had become a commonplace of totalitarian revolutionaries of left or right-he extolled the virtues of the lie as an instrument of the higher truth...
...legate excommunicated the Patriarch of Con stantinople-cut Orthodoxy off from the intellectual revolution that took place in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the last 46 years, Communism has turned the largest Orthodox churches-of Russia and the Balkan countries-into compliant captives of a totalitarian regime...
...attached as third secretary to a Western embassy, who appears to be more important than the ambassador himself. Is Mon sarrat trying to say that the necessity for security in the West has infected the whole organization and personnel of the British Foreign Service with the methods of a totalitarian state? Smith and Jones do not seem to be staking their lives on a confrontation of opposing faiths; they appear only as a couple of sexual deviates who might just as well have flitted to Ischia or any other hospitable enclave...
Various studies have portrayed the unemployed man as confused, panicky, prone to suicide, mayhem and revolt. Totalitarian regimes seem to know what unemployment can mean: they never permit...
...some "peace" thinkers, she does not equate the disappearance of war with an East-West detente. Misunderstanding this point, several members of the Cambridge "peace" community have convinced themselves that Miss Arendt is about to join their ranks. In fact, she emphasizes that although war may become obsolete, the totalitarian-free world struggle "in which so much is at stake" will go on. She suggests that it will probably be won by the side which learns to understand revolution, which, one might add, does not seem to augur well for the West...