Word: totalitarian
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...inside space, the designs are illegible, and probably were meant to be. Imagine the buildings from the sketches: what rooms stare from those endlessly repeated window bays? Where do those interminable corridors go? Does anyone ever walk up that colossal staircase? They all reflect the processes of totalitarian politics-explicit in their demands, obscure in their workings...
Magnetic Power. The inefficiencies and inconsistencies of the modern world's most savagely totalitarian state were staggering. Hitler's satraps ran separate duchies of their own, and the supposedly all-powerful Fuhrer often found his orders circumvented by his lieutenants-even by Speer, who, as Armaments Minister in the waning months of war, quietly sabotaged Hitler's scorched-earth policy for territories about to be lost to the Allied armies. Hitler sometimes found his close associates absurd. When SS Chief Heinrich Himmler sought through archaeological excavations to demonstrate the early growth of German culture, Hitler scoffed...
History seems to show that modern dictatorships cannot be maintained in relaxed societies: they require a visible enemy and an atmosphere of struggle and danger. One effect of détente with the West is to strengthen more liberal groups in totalitarian societies that favor domestic reforms and are opposed to adventuristic expansion abroad. détentes also erode the authority of Communist regimes that have little or no popular support. Contacts and exchanges with the West tend to give fresh impetus to East Europe's aspirations for independence from Moscow...
...subcultures seldom intersect, for the young largely ignore the old or treat them with what Novelist Saul Bellow calls "a kind of totalitarian cruelty, like Hitler's attitude toward Jews." It is as though the aged were an alien race to which the young will never belong. Indeed, there is a distinct discrimination against the old that has been called ageism. In its simplest form, says Psychiatrist Robert Butler of Washington, B.C., ageism is just "not wanting to have all these ugly old people around." Butler believes that in 25 or 30 years, ageism will be a problem equal...
What used to trouble Hollywood about Altman was that he turned the totalitarian trade of film directing into democracy, if not anarchy. Far from strutting around on the set with a riding crop, Altman is likely to operate the clapstick himself and encourage suggestions from second assistants and electricians. An Altman film is more like an improvisational encounter group than a showcase for stars and plot. Sally Kellerman, who played Nurse Hot Lips Houlihan in M*A*S*H, reports that "even my analyst said it did more for me than a man could." Working for Altman, says Sally...