Word: totalitarianism
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...relationship persists. The paper recently charged that a government candidate who had lost in the elections was using "Nazi-Fascist jargon" in suggesting that the elections be nullified. In the old days, O Estado would have been censored. Says Julio Mesquita: "Estado will not change its opinions. Under a totalitarian regime, we will be oppressed and continue to fight for freedom. Under a free regime, we will worry about the dangers and excesses of democracy. It's really easier for Brazil to change than it is for Estado to change...
...which these artists were players. The "rebellion" of the title was against the classicism of 18th century art, with its obsessive search for ideal form, its demand that artists find and paint such general moral principles as they could discern in nature and in history. As Clark suggests, totalitarian painting and scholarship must still obey these formalist principles. Though the romantic rebels would not have known about that, they did insist on the sanctity of the individual sensibility, their right to paint man and nature as they envisioned them...
...disillusioned generation of post-World War I Englishmen, he was the cynical dandy who wrote such bright and nasty satires as Antic Hay and Point Counter Point. During the '30s he became the Huxley of the depressingly prescient and durable Brave New World (1932) and its vision of a totalitarian future, with eugenics, social engineering and government-dispensed tranquilizers...
...narrow but often a unanimous majority of our membership which represents a wide band on the political spectrum. We take pride in that the Hellenic Students Association functions in the most democratic fashion and it is painful to read in the Crimson article that the Association is of a "totalitarian radical" nature. The use of the term "totalitarian" seems absurdly unjust when used to characterize a group of people who have risked a lot to oppose a totalitarian government in Greece. The quadrupling of the membership of the Association in the last two years hardly suggests the adoption of undemocratic...
During his first three years incarceration and the nine months between his second arrest in 1969, Moroz wrote four essays criticizing the Soviet totalitarian system...