Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...canonization" ritual of "Savior" Allende, please bear in mind that Mussolini, Hitler, Jimenez, Castro and Papa Duvalier all began in the same phony manner. First, treat your subjects with plenty of tender loving care, win their gullible confidence, then slowly but surely apply the inevitable pressures of cruel, totalitarian dictatorship...
...Soviet Union, conducted under the pretext of their Zionist and anti-Soviet activities, and the long term sentences, including slow death through starvation, meted out are symbolic of the wave of terror and anti-Semitism now at large throughout the Communist world. Jews are again held hostage by a totalitarian power, and persecuted and tortured as enemies of the country, while the world watches silently. But unlike 30 years ago when similar actions presaged the beginning of a mass Jewish extermination, the world now can no longer claim that it had no knowledge of these crimes...
Both instances-in Spain and the Soviet Union-involved totalitarian regimes that have professed stony insensitivity to world opinion in the past. But they could hardly ignore the startling collection of political bedfellows and adversaries that formed against them last week. Longshoremen in Marseille and Genoa refused to handle either Spanish or Soviet cargo ships. Italy's Communist Party blasted the Soviets for sullying the image of socialism. Italian right-wingers, meanwhile, accused Madrid of doing the same to conservatism. In Lisbon, the Spanish ambassador got a dressing down from a delegation of 40 Portuguese journalists -none of whom...
...Gaulle still remained something of a mystery to Americans. He claimed a grandeur, a synecdoche of self and nation ("La France, c'est moi"), which in another man would have seemed monstrously totalitarian, or at least extremely eccentric. America's last comparable hero was Dwight Eisenhower, as Kansan as De Gaulle was Cartesian, and it may be that Ike was the last man who could have said with any safety: "I am America!" Richard Nixon would not dare to try the formulanor would Georges Pompidou, for that matter. The U.S. has accommodated itself to a life...
...future is here, so let us all lie down. But as Lewis Mumford indicates in The Pentagon of Power, what McLuhan is asking for is utter human docility. "The goal is total cultural dissolutionor what McLuhan characterizes as a 'tribal communism'McLuhan's public relations euphemism for totalitarian control." Thus Sesame Street is indeed opposed to the message, if not the medium, of the Master. The show's civilized magic and surrealism seek to increase a child's sense of himself, to dilate his imagination and his capacities...