Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decent interval" approach would yield startling insight into Kissinger's later policy recommendations on the war. To begin with, the Saigon regime was not being defended out of any real sense of principle. Kissinger was willing and eager to uphold a corrupt totalitarian government with the most brutal possible methods for the mere sake of diplomatic gain. Thousands of lives could be sacrificed and whole civilizations destroyed in the name of opposing a takeover which Kissinger had earlier been prepared-and was probably still prepared-to accept...
Lastly, we are alarmed by the totalitarian tone of Pasztor's letter. Pasztor was angered by Caploe's reporting of the facts. He was further angered by the use of a standard reporting ploy to gain more information than he chose to give us. He claims to have issued us a "warning." We never received his "warning," and we dismiss it. We believe in our reporting, and no self-appointed censor will intimidate us into altering it. SJP has raised the issue of free speech in defense of some dubious propositions; one of them is that a newspaper is attacking...
Rhetorical Flourish. This will undoubtedly come as a shock to the millions of young people who boast of their vitality and their commitment to causes and intense relationships. Yet Kosinski sees them as living well within a more or less familiar totalitarian spectrum. They are, he thinks, "victims of a collective image which, like ubiquitous television, engulfs us." A rhetorical flourish, perhaps. But it comes from a man who has transcended far more sinister totalitarianisms by leaving nothing to Chance...
...freedom to the people, defying the generally accepted thesis that economic reform inevitably reduces political control. The East Germans, of course, may well be a special case because they are an exceptionally disciplined and apolitical people, who have spent the past 38 years under one form or another of totalitarian rule...
...plans to shut up the pro-war speakers Friday are both wrong and stupid. By mimicking opponents who are totalitarian in outlook, our radicals suggest that the whole choice lies between the totalitarians in power and those lusting after it. The "masses," unless starving, have always chosen "the oppressor they know and love...