Word: totalitarian
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...North's long-soured revolution: it's a place of deserted roads, decaying buildings and rusting trains that creak off to the provinces at walking pace. But what's different is the richly quotidian existence he brings to life. O may be under the thumb of a totalitarian regime, but he meets associates for a beer after work, flirts with telephone operators and fends off the elderly widows in his apartment building who want to hitch him to a suitable bride. Just as Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko detective novels stripped the cold war thriller of much...
...party is a tailor-made metaphor for Estonia itself: freed from the confines of totalitarian rule, it's having a blast experimenting with unorthodox ideas as it makes up for lost time. Since regaining independence in 1991 with the collapse of the U.S.S.R., Estonia (pop. 1.35 million) was the first former Soviet republic to introduce its own currency and adopt a flat-tax system, now widely copied in the rest of Eastern Europe. It has also become one of the most technologically advanced places on the planet. You can use your mobile phone to pay for parking, buy bus tickets...
...Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and author of such novels such as Fatelessness (1975), Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990), and Liquidation (2003) won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The distinction brought Kertész, now 77, a new platform for his ideas on the impact of 20th century totalitarian politics on the individual. Kertész spoke to John Nadler in Budapest about the Nobel, novels and the threats for the 21st century...
...forget that the slim 1% difference between humans and chimps that gave us Mozart, Einstein and Socrates is also responsible for serial killers, totalitarian despots and greasy-palmed politicians. Darin Kourajian Locust Grove, Georgia...
...answered that one could be put in prison or even shot with little reason, to which Gunn immediately responded with a thoughtful and heartfelt declaration that “those are terrible penalties.” They are indeed, Tim, but even the daily hardship of living under a totalitarian government can’t compare to the suffering occasioned by the (hopefully) temporary absence of such a truly quality show from Wednesday-night programming. Come back soon, Project Runway. Please? —Marianne F. Kaletzky ’08 is outgoing Comp Director and incoming Arts...