Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful as the U.S. could afford to lose face in the interests of peace. Yet why should the U.S. be the only party in the war to make concessions? Foreign Minister Joseph M.A.H. Luns of The Netherlands had the bitter answer: "It is a well-established practice of totalitarian regimes that they declare themselves prepared for negotiations provided that the other side concedes in advance the main point at stake...
...States thus caught up in a circle, trapped in the flow of history by its expansionist policies. "When Imperialism is no longer strong enough to support our welfare state, we must look to the warfare state to boost our economy. When this in turn fails, we will choose the totalitarian state...
...anarchy of life opposed by the clean disciplines of totalitarian power: it is an ancient human contest, and Warner has the insight to see that these antipathetic power forces are also sympathetic. "It seemed to us," Roy says of the aerodrome and the village, "that between these two enemies there was something binding and eternally...
...Aerodrome suggests that Warner is a writer of extraordinary, controlled power who levies on his work the totalitarian discipline that it requires and deserves. Anyone rereading The Aerodrome will be struck by how firmly Warner's tolling cadences have lodged in the echo chamber of the mind, and how rewarding it is to hear them again...
...Japanese, who only 30 years ago underwent Asia's most violent experience in totalitarian insanity, Peking's ravings raise uncomfortable memories of the hijoji (extraordinary times) used by Tojo as an excuse to lead Japan into war against the West. Indians-who have had reason to fear Red Chinese aggression ever since the Himalayan campaign of 1962-are more than usually worried. Even North Korea, to whose "rescue" Red China came in 1950, has backed away from Peking in recent weeks, quite possibly in fear of involvement in some suicidal Red Chinese military adventure...