Word: totalitarian
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...recognize as motivating them." The second is that the American liberal establishment--guilt-ridden over Vietnam, frustrated by the failures of the Great Society--has lost the nerve to engage in this global battle of values. The third is that the Soviet Union is still the principal carrier of totalitarian disease, and that, as a result of the default of the American liberal elite, it has now gained the upper hand. To Moynihan the challenge is that clear-cut, and all the more so because he imposes upon it an essentially aristocratic grid. The real duel is not people...
...self-determination mean that he will welcome the explorations of liberal theologians and take a tolerant view toward individual conscience on knotty matters that perplex Catholics? Not necessarily. As Harvard Divinity School's George Williams sees it, Wojtyla's philosophy of individual self-determination permits man to challenge the totalitarian state as in Nazism, or economic determinism as in Communism. But, says Williams, that does not necessarily mean that man has "self-determination against...
...other potential criminals or rehabilitate the convicted, then that should be greeted as a pleasant surprise. The first business, without being bloodthirsty about it, is to keep society's contract with itself and punish a crime as it promised it would. Author C.S. Lewis has pointed out the totalitarian possibilities in treating criminals as sick people who need to be cured: "If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as crime; and compulsorily cured...
WARSAW, Poland--In one of its sharpest challenges on record, the leaders of Poland's Roman Catholic Church yesterday called for the abolition of censorship in this Communist nation, calling it a "weapon of totalitarian regimes...
...groups are trying to ban the name because of allegedly racist overtones. Item: A young man who asked a Minnesota court to change his name to "1069" was recently refused and rebuked by the judge for proposing "an offense to human dignity" and seeking a name that was "inherently totalitarian." Strong language...