Word: totalitarian
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Speaking in the second of his four Hewitt Lectures at Sanders Theatre, Toynbee cited modern technology and the totalitarian state as "revivals of manworship in the form of collective human power...
...Izmir and Ankara (TIME, Sept. 19). At first, under martial law and strict censorship, much of the story of the riots' nature was suppressed by the government of Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes, who has a supposedly democratic regime but cracks down on free speech and free press with totalitarian ease. But by last week, from piecemeal reports, diplomatic dispatches and the tales of travelers from Turkey, the outside world began to learn how wanton, yet organized, the riots were...
...level tone strikingly different from Perón's superheated oratory, the new President promised his huge, joyful audience a "rule of law," freedom of assembly and of the press (see PRESS). "Argentina" General Lonardi said, "has given the world the first example of an absolute totalitarian government falling before the just and honorable reaction of the people...
Steeped in the common-sense science of the Victorian Age, the public thinks of scientists as dangerous warlocks. "The popular picture of the scientist," says Bronowski, "lends itself to the basic totalitarian tricks which exploit the insecurity of the ignorant: an awe of the specialist, a hidden hatred of him, and a cleft between his way of thinking and theirs...
TWICE the United States has saved France from the menace of a totalitarian regime. Without America, we would probably know the Nazi regime. Without the maintenance of American troops in Europe, we would probably be under the regime of Eastern Europe. However, from [respected novelists] to the intellectual "mandarins"' of the Left Bank, a majority of French writers have returned from the U.S. with severe, if not cruel, reports. An America which was our ally, but with a power that was supposedly equal to ours, was a friend to us. An America which is too strong provokes withdrawal...