Word: totalitarian
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...Palace of Dreams, Ismail Kadare's most recent work to be published in English, exemplifies these thoughtful, sometimes poetic, intellectual allegories for a life in a totalitarian state. Despite the occasional awkward or forced speculation on the alienation and mayhem caused by cruel, inept bureaucracy, the novel generally succeeds in creating an interesting and often engrossing tale...
...thing, the collapse of the musically totalitarian 12-tone system has enabled a thousand melodic flowers to bloom. No longer do the words contemporary music mean two hours of agonistic screaming and clangorous orchestral Klangfarbenmelodie. For another, audiences raised on show-biz special effects demand large-scale spectacle, and innovative opera producers have risen to the challenge; not since the days of Meyerbeer at the Paris Opera have set design and direction loomed so large...
...risk of seeming paranoid: the A.M.A. is opposed to this, and all the medical societies -- but not the average doctor. More than half like it, but they can't speak because the A.M.A. will come down hard on them. You call this a democracy? Ha! It's a cryptic totalitarian state...
...more important philosophical objection to the Court's understanding of public space and the church-state relationship, however, is that it is irreconcilable with the ideals of democracy. Only in a totalitarian country is all public space defined as "the state" or "the government." Public schools and colleges belong to the community, the tax-payers, not the government. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I read the First Amendment, it does not even suggest that the government enforce the separation of church and community. The First Amendment's "establishment of religion" clause was originally designed to prevent...
...dilemma can be summed up in two questions: Should authoritarian methods be used to advance the cause of democratic reform? When is the use of force justified in defense of law and order? These issues resonate deeply in a nation where totalitarian leaders used to violate basic human rights as a matter of course. Gorbachev never resolved the conflict of how to be a strong President without sliding into totalitarian rule. Yeltsin is still feeling his way. Whenever he begins to talk tough in response to turmoil in the ethnic enclaves of the Russian Federation or the latest challenge from...