Word: totalitarian
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...secondary "hostile environment" policy, which allows employees to file lawsuits on nebulous grounds of psychological distress, is grotesquely totalitarian. It offends free-speech rights and is predicated on a reactionary female archetype: the prudish Victorian lady who faints at a sexual innuendo. This isn't feminism; it's Puritanism...
...style of history that the world had been forgetting. The Soviet Union was seized by a sinister anachronism: its dying self. Men with faces the color of a sidewalk talked about a "state of emergency." They rolled in tanks and told stolid lies. The world imagined another totalitarian dusk. If Gorbachev was under arrest, who had possession of the nuclear codes...
...applaud the efforts of all those involved in its planning and vision. The Taiwanese Cultural Society, while not formally involved with the Teach-Ins, would like to add an extra dimension: to remember the struggles that bring democracy and the plight of those who have suffered under totalitarian regimes...
...want to live in a country where "friends" are encouraged to rat on their pals, where body wires are used to gather information about someone else's sex life and where FBI agents bully naive people and rummage through their personal belongings. This is the stuff of totalitarian regimes. KAY VINSON Germantown, Tenn...
Adultery is not a crime in most places, nor is cross-generational intimacy. And suppose someone did lie? People have a right to lie to protect their civil rights from the state when it acts in totalitarian ways. Wouldn't you lie to the Gestapo? I feel more empathy with Clinton than with the hypocrisy of Starr. ALBERTO CIDRAES Kanazawa, Japan...