Word: totalitarian
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...society in lethal flux. Wajda brings forth all the weapons in this director's arsenal, from a droning soundtrack to claustrophobic camerawork, to brilliant contrast between dark night and the torches of the security police. He succeeds masterfully in conveying the dreadful anxiety of living in a totalitarian regime. For if the government of the Terror lacks the 20th century's technological tools of surveillance, it nevertheless aspired to set neighbor spying on neighbor, and to make public what had previously been private, perhaps the essential aim of totalitarianism. Sacrifice to the cause, submission for the greater good were...
...regarded international athletic competition as a refuge from the troubles afflicting mankind. Probably since 776 B.C., but certainly since 1936, the summer of Adolf Hitler's Nazi festival, the games have been irresistible forums for social, racial and political causes (as well as a handy time for athletes from totalitarian states to defect). There was pause on the part of some countries as to whether they wished to party with the Third Reich. But the I.O.C. assured everyone that it had met with Hitler and "no one since the Greeks had captured the Olympic spirit so well...
Like two vast prehistoric monsters lifting themselves out of the swamp, half-blind and savage, the two great totalitarian powers of the world now tore at each other's throats...
...event of a tragedy like that of Flight 007, including the admission of responsibility and the undertaking of steps to ensure that it never happens again. For its part, the Soviet Union is simply "lying-openly, brazenly and knowingly. It is the face of a ruthless totalitarian state." Ovinnikov, declaring the session "unjustifiable," proceeded to read the TASS account of the episode to delegates...
...fact are calling for a "nonviolent" settlement to the fighting, the four have close ties with some factions of the Nicaraguan opposition, including the guerrillas, and might be able to hold out for terms that could end the fighting: a halt in the Sandinistas' current efforts to establish totalitarian control over the country, and elections leading to a genuinely pluralistic government...