Word: totalitarian
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...believes we ought to move toward withdrawal in Vietnam does not make him happy that the Viet Cong will prevail, as it apparently does Mr. Booth and certainly Mr. Maher, Mr. Howe was most critical of any equation of American politics with the lack of basic political freedom in totalitarian countries. Sanford V. Levinson Tutor, Dunster House
...over more responsibility to a new generation of younger technocrats. The new Minister for Foreign Trade, Horst Sölle, is 41, and many plant managers are now between 25 and 40. While such men are sometimes critical of the East German economy, what they fault is not the totalitarian system, but the old, open-collared party hacks who resist change. Says Kurt Leopold, West Germany's former chief trade negotiator with East Germany: "The younger generation is conspicuously pressing for reform. The older party officials hate them but are powerless to stop the trend...
...overanxious. Paul's penchant for warning against excess seems to be largely an expression of his cautious and gloomy nature. Last week, for example, on a visit to the catacombs of Domitilla, he compared the persecuted Christians of old to those who today live in "nations with atheistic and totalitarian" governments. "I sometimes wonder if Paul isn't lacking in the virtue of hope," says one Jesuit...
...credulity with which American accept what Johnson tells them will diminish. To say one week that troops are being sent to protect American lives, the next week that they are there to fight Communist rebels, and the week after that the rebels are not Communists, might work in a totalitarian state. But it will not work indefinitely...
...such stiff tests, there are scarcely more than twoscore genuinely functioning democracies. But they embrace about 40% of the world's 3.2 billion people. Another 40% live under the "barbary" of totalitarian rule, the rest in political halfway houses. The governments that most closely meet the democratic tests are, of course, concentrated in the U.S., the old British Commonwealth and Western Europe. In the nature of things, none is perfect, and some are deeply troubled. None achieved democracy quickly, easily, or as the gift of any master. Nobles had to bend to kings, kings...