Word: totalitarian
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...setting, the movie creates an unusually convincing mythical Balkan state: modern Vosnia, whose beautiful mountain scenery, totalitarian bosses and strained political posture clearly suggest Tito's Yugoslavia. Its natives display the reflexes conditioned in a police state, speak the Vosnian language,* a linguistic mishmash cleverly concocted out of Latin odds and Slavic ends...
Regarding the degree of support which the Communists command in Czechoslovakia, Schmidt cited the difficulty of testing public opinion in a totalitarian state. "The Communist organizations have gained membership since the 1948 coup," he speculated, "mostly because of opportunitists who joined for personal advantage. The membership of the Communist Party itself has probably been reduced by the purges. I don't think they've many converts; they have probably lost converts among the industrial workers, who resent the speed-up and shock-worker campaigns...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, charged that the law "smacks of the totalitarian methods and is obviously a pre-election gesture by those who still believe that hysterical extremes are vote-getters." He added that "undoubtedly many of the Congressmen were not really in favor but feared to oppose such sedition legislation...
...Nixon portions of the omnibus, bill, Chafee attacked the all-inclusive Section 4, which reads: "It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to combine, conspire, or agree with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship . . . under the domination or control of any foreign government...
Outgoing President Stephen J. Seligman '52, said last week that "the Communist invasion of South Korea is gruesome verification of the dangers of the Soviet totalitarian regime...