Word: totalitarian
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...industries that were keeping the economy booming. However unpleasant these losses, they were, to increasing numbers of liberals, insignificant beside the effects of the war-influenced inflation and the loss of self-respect contingent on continuing to bomb and kill and die in defense of a corrupt and totalitarian state...
...attempts at communication can be foiled in so many and such subtle ways as in a politically repressive society, in a country where literature and culture must dance to the dictates of a totalitarian state. This is the situation drawn in the story "Man in the Drawer," where an American pays a visit to Soviet Russia and becomes unwillingly involved with the struggles of a Russian writer. Presented with the challenge of smuggling the Russian's forbidden stories out of the country, the American can respond only with fear and irritation. He wants to be left alone to lick...
...convey the utmost reasonableness. There was none of the jut-jawed belligerence of a Duce, none of the menacing rhetoric of a swaggering martinet. In fact, an ironic, Pirandellian sense of split realities was inescapable. Here was a former functionary of Benito Mussolini's last government denouncing the "totalitarian" ways of contemporary Italy...
...intensive, moving theatricality-the visual and emotional high point of John Cranko's Traces, which was given its American première last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House by the magnificent Stuttgart Ballet. Traces is the portrayal of a woman who has escaped from totalitarian horrors but has yet to come to terms with those past agonies. Her present is visualized by some amiable bourgeois friends and a courtly but uncomprehending lover (Heinz Clauss...
...indicated that behind-the-scenes politicking by Whittier, not the erosion of natural abilities in the line, is the real reason for USU's decline. One blocker who was cut complained that Whittier berated him for his suggestions in the huddle and indicated that the USU quarterback was a totalitarian when it came to calling signals. "He told me 'You're not following the game plan,'" the ex-starter said. "He said 'Everyone's in step but you.' Right after that I was gone...