Word: totalitarian
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...Melanesians and Rhodesian copper miners to Mississippi blacks and whites and Hollywood moviemakers; of a heart attack; in Berkeley, Calif. "Hollywood shouts to be satirized-I want to understand it," she said before heading West in 1947; three years of research produced The Dream Factory, that depicted a totalitarian society in which people were property, and power an end in itself...
...pursuit of this goal, Ongania began to solicit the support of the labor unions, many of which are still dominated by the totalitarian principles of the long-deposed Juan Peron. Ongania's appeal to the unions and entrepreneurs angered the army generals, who consider themselves the guardians of Argentina's welfare. At a meeting last month the generals barraged the President with complaints about his dictatorial designs. When one young general complained of a "lack of dialogue," Ongania replied, "But we are having a dialogue now." "We are not," snapped the general. "You are lecturing us, and besides...
Tyrmand is particularly distressed by Americans who call for revolution. He lavishes on them the kind of contempt that can issue only from someone who has known revolution firsthand. Tyrmand, of course, takes words with a deadly seriousness because he knows that in a totalitarian state they can lead to death when used too freely. In America, revolutionary chatter seems both careless and frivolous...
Amnesty Bill. Oddly enough, the European nations least affected seem to be the ones with recent totalitarian pasts -Germany and Italy. Last fall the West Germans elected a Socialist government and gave a mere 4.3% of the vote to the right-wing National Democratic Party, which advocated "security through law and order." Franz-Josef Strauss, a leader of the opposition Christian Democrats, has delighted audiences in his native Bavaria by attacking the "animal students," and he has been heard to observe that European politicians have a lot to learn from Spiro Agnew. But outside conservative Bavaria, Strauss's approach...
...spawning ground and sanctuary of the movement is the American university. Few institutions are more vital to a free society; none is so susceptible to capture and destruction by the radical left. Small wonder, then, that each year a new group of impressionable consumers falls victim to the totalitarian ptomaine dispensed by those who disparage our system...