Word: totalitarian
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...Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and author of such novels such as Fatelessness (1975), Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990), and Liquidation (2003) won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The distinction brought Kertész, now 77, a new platform for his ideas on the impact of 20th century totalitarian politics on the individual. Kertész spoke to John Nadler in Budapest about the Nobel, novels and the threats for the 21st century...
...forget that the slim 1% difference between humans and chimps that gave us Mozart, Einstein and Socrates is also responsible for serial killers, totalitarian despots and greasy-palmed politicians. Darin Kourajian Locust Grove, Georgia...
...answered that one could be put in prison or even shot with little reason, to which Gunn immediately responded with a thoughtful and heartfelt declaration that “those are terrible penalties.” They are indeed, Tim, but even the daily hardship of living under a totalitarian government can’t compare to the suffering occasioned by the (hopefully) temporary absence of such a truly quality show from Wednesday-night programming. Come back soon, Project Runway. Please? —Marianne F. Kaletzky ’08 is outgoing Comp Director and incoming Arts...
...General Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Pinochet rose to power in 1973 via a violent coup d’état and his tenure would eventually witness the deaths of over 3000 of his political enemies. He overthrew a democratically elected government, only to institute a ruthless totalitarian regime bathed in blood. He was a criminal, murderer, and thief—or so the headlines ubiquitous in the mainstream media would have us believe. Pinochet, however, is a man misunderstood by many, and the distortion of facts surrounding his rise to and fall from power is a great injustice...
...Disgusted with what she perceived as the U.S.'s weak image under Jimmy Carter, the longtime Democrat, who did not formally switch parties until 1985, became publicly known as an ardent anticommunist and one of Ronald Reagan's closest foreign policy advisers. She helped Reagan distinguish between unfriendly Marxist "totalitarian" regimes and acceptable, rightist "authoritarian" ones; lambasted targets from the Soviet Union to the U.N. Security Council; and in a speech at the '84 Republican Convention, dryly derided Democrats as the "blame America first" party. In her later years, she remained a leading conservative voice and rallied for a formal...