Word: totalitarian
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...that Bukovsky had the right to demonstrate under the Soviet constitution. The legal community was shocked that she had invoked the constitution-a tactic that is taboo in political cases. In practice, the basic civil rights guaranteed by the constitution have proved to be mere window dressing in a totalitarian society...
...appointed University stations. Anderson would give the newcomer a nutshell history and mental tourguide about the ins and outs of Harvard. "They are always interested in how the University works. They ask, 'Where does Harvard get its money,' or 'How is Harvard run,' or if they are from a totalitarian country. 'How does the national government inform you what research to do?," 'Anderson explains, mixing bemusement with feigned disbelief...
...kind of effect that rapid technological advancement can have on a society has been fodder for many fantasies--from Big Brother's totalitarian regime to Woody Allen's scientist doctors cloning a man from his nose. But most authors and directors and sociologists and philosophers start from the premise that the society thus transformed was ready for progress to begin with. Dr. Seymour Gray, an American physician appointed to head a brand-new hospital in Saudi Arabia, had the opportunity to see how much more wrenching such advancement can be when a country moves from a primitive nomadic culture...
...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...