Word: totalitarian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...press, and habeus corpus of the majority of the people within that nation. But the foreign minister's fear of a communist conspiracy, of which he offered no proof other than the existence of a letter, does not lend credibility to his government's increasingly repressive, even totalitarian policies...
Zoning codes can fine-tune a community with a thoroughness that sometimes seems virtually totalitarian. A homeowner will be told how close to a lot line he can build or plant trees, how high his fences may be, what additions he may build. A piggery war broke out in Bolton, Mass., a town that traditionally earned its living by raising swine. Newcomers to the town proposed an ordinance limiting new piggeries to a maximum of eight swine. They were angrily voted down. A man named Stephen Kenney was hauled before the village court in the Buffalo suburb of Kenmore...
...American press has also been under steady attack by the Soviet Union ever since the Chernobyl nuclear accident. This takes true totalitarian gall. In the first few days, when the Soviets were hiding the facts, many American papers carried the U.P.I. report of 2,000 deaths, from an anonymous source in Kiev, but scrupulously did not sensationalize what could not be verified. The one major exception was the New York Post, that cynical tabloid that continues to lose millions for its Australian-born publisher, Rupert Murdoch. The Post used half its front page for a black headline MASS GRAVE, adding...
...obviously the reverse is not necessarily true: while repression can strengthen Communism, removing repression does not automatically weaken Communism or other totalitarian forces. The Kennedy Administration decided that the Diem regime in Viet Nam no longer deserved U.S. support, among other reasons because its oppressiveness made it unpopular and therefore ineffectual. But the governments we put in place after we eliminated Diem were not necessarily any better in the long run. The Carter Administration made a similar decision about Somoza in Nicaragua, and yet again the Sandinistas are hardly an improvement, as most Nicaraguans know only too well today...
...obligation "to offer help" to the government. It can, I repeat, do so if it wants to--as long as in doing so it does not violate its academic obligations. Otherwise, academics in this country will fall to the level to which many so-called scholars have fallen in totalitarian regimes. But one of the many dangers that neo-conservative ideologues overlook, in their crusade against the "evil empire," is the tendency to have our ends justify any means, and thus the erasing of the differences between the ethical standards a liberal society must maintain, and those of its enemies...