Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lynn M. Gonzales '93 told the Crimson she wears "a little yellow ribbon to support the troops," and thinks "everybody should." I hear her position called "consistent," "logical," and "humane." But it is also totalitarian and oppressive. Violence inheres in the very idea of compassion...
Conservatives have long argued that America cannot afford the luxury of debate and disunity when it comes to conflict with totalitarian powers. This claim should not be taken lightly. Adolph Hitler once observed that "the great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it." In an all-our war against a totalitarian power, it is not unreasonable to expect that we might have to dispense in order to preserve them for the long term...
Square One Steve Tesich's futuristic off-Broadway satire of life in a totalitarian state seems outdated by history, but the human impulse to impose orthodoxy persists, so this witty and touching work is likely to be topical again all too soon...
Which brings us to the startling revelation that the center of Harvard's political thought is left of America's. That does not mean that those on campus are sheeplike, unworthy or stupid. And it doesn't mean they are totalitarian. Instead, they happen to hold the majority view that is worthy of respect. They are people worthy of being asked not "Why don't you think?" but "What do you think?" In asking this, we have moved beyond...
...outcome that seems least likely is a return to the highly centralized totalitarian dictatorship of the past. Whatever happens at the Revolution Day celebrations, Yeltsin and his allies are pushing a new Russian Revolution, one that could remake the country almost as completely as, and hopefully more happily than, did the one 73 years...