Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cold grey eyes scrutinized without recognition. In a glance, a number of half-truths about totalitarian societies coalesced in my mind. For even those who travel to a communist state with an "open mind" find themselves suspicious, expecting that the reports of a police state circulated so presumptuously by the American media will prove to be true...
Terry Dolan is absolutely right when he describes the G.O.P. as a place where rich people pick their noses. The Republicans and the rich really don't care whether or not America remains democratic or goes totalitarian. What support there is for the New Right comes from white- and blue-collar middle-income Americans who are fed up with federal regulation of their lives and the sellout of our nation by the liberal machine...
Could it just possibly be that those who said 15 years ago that we had a moral obligation to intervene in Southeast Asia in order to prevent an oppressively totalitarian Communist regime from turning Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos into a bloody nightmare were right after...
...appalling thing is that we are forced to support these arrogant bureaucratic parasites. Sometimes I wish ours were a totalitarian society, where those who did not perform would be banished to the salt mines...
...openly totalitarian regimes that refuse to let the people be the "sovereign of their own destiny," they produce only "oppression, intimidation, violence and terrorism." In an implicit reference to his experience in Communist Poland, John Paul pleads for freedom of conscience. "It is difficult to accept ... a position that gives only atheism the right of citizenship in public and social life, while believers are ... barely tolerated or ... deprived of the rights of citizenship." In a dramatic appeal to rulers, he demands respect for religious liberty: "No privilege is asked for, but only respect for an elementary right...