Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened to a system of gears whose teeth had been filed off at random. Such a snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even by a substandard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy, pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell...
...Jones wasn't completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth hat are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined...
Actually, there are a great many substitutes for victory in American life. Unsuccessful generals or business magnates do not hopelessly lose face, as in some Eastern cultures; they retire amid honors and stock options. Defeated politicians are not liquidated, as in totalitarian countries; they run again. In a dynamic and open society, losers are blessed with enormous opportunities to weather defeat by switching to new directions of adventures. The comeback is an especially American dream. Yet that itself only indicates a desperate need to win. Whole libraries could be filled with American novels whose villain is success, or a misunderstanding...
...Like all totalitarian regimes, the Soviet Union attempts to seize and shape the minds of its young at an early, formative stage. For the group between the ages of 14 and 28, the instrument to that end is the Communist Youth League, or the Komsomol. Last week, as early snow and biting cold embraced Moscow, thousands of Komsomoltsy marched through the capital to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their organization and to pledge, amid red banners and slogans, unsparing efforts in the struggle for Communism...
...Paulo's influential Jornal da Tarde declared such a mass arrest of benefit only to those "who fight to install a totalitarian regime in the country." In Rio, 200 students invaded the Education Ministry offices on Flamengo Beach. They grabbed books and pieces of scenery belonging to the National Theater Conservatory and heaved the lot out of office windows. They blocked traffic and collected tolls on an ad jacent expressway. In Fortaleza, police broke up student demonstrations with what they called "family-size" nightsticks. In São Paulo, the students' midnight skulkers sprayed "UNE" in paint...