Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law: it invites anarchy." Louis D. Brandeis wrote more than 50 years ago. His words apply as well today. Ambassador Kirkpatrick's support for the denials of freedoms around the globe--including her ludicrously self-serving distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes--provides more than the ironic backdrop for the current controversy that the majority editorial suggests...
Sitting throughout and speaking entirely without any prepared text or notes, the rumpled classicist drew from the range of ancient Greek literature, as he built up his unorthodox argument that Socrates and Plato were totalitarian, absolutist, and elitists to boot. Along the way, he made brief detours, for instance to call Solon the "Franklin D. Roosevelt of Athens" or to make a plug for studying the great classes ("All our feelings as human beings are there...
...certainly no accident that Pope John Paul II is head of the Catholic Church in these times. He has come along when the world needs him most. Having lived under Nazi and Communist regimes in his native Poland, he knows firsthand the dismal failure of totalitarian and atheistic ideologies...
...well as black-voter-registration and labor-organizing campaigns. But even in his radical student days he was strongly antiCommunist. In 1980 he and his wife, in what became known as the Jessup Report, totaled up $442,000 in Methodist moneys aiding groups he judged to be Marxist or totalitarian, and sent the list to the denomination's financial overseers...
...answers a growing flood of press and lay inquiries (2,500 since the CBS show). The key researcher is Presbyterian Kerry Ptacek, a onetime member of the Students for a Democratic Society. He says now that "a crisis in my own spiritual life had led me to leftist totalitarian politics." His present work is a reaction against that earlier commitment...