Word: totalitarianism
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...world affairs, there is another crucial reason for studying modern India. One of the major interests of people working in the social sciences is modernization and economic development. India presents us with a tremendous example of a rational attempt to achieve modernization and to achieve it in a non-totalitarian setting...
...constitution. "Our constitution is good," said De Gaulle. "It has given proof of itself for more than five years," and was "neither rejected by the people nor invalidated by events." Assuredly, he declared, neither those who "sigh for the confusion of the past" nor "those who aim at a totalitarian regime" can willingly accept the constitution. "But let us keep...
President (1939, 1949) and twice deposed (1941, 1951), Arnulfo is a fiery speaker with a record of totalitarian flirtations, including Nazi sympathies during World War II. He had high school students goose-stepping in the streets of Panama City until his fellow whitetails rose up to throw him out. He now campaigns on a platform of friendship with the U.S. (but "justice" on the canal) and preaches land reform for Panama's havenots...
...circ. 1,013), ran a news story pointing up Goldmark's membership in the American Civil Liberties Union, which he said was "closely affiliated with the Communist movement in the United States." A Holden editorial called Goldmark "a tool of a monstrous conspiracy to remake America into a totalitarian state...
Glass of Champagne. Harking back to his favorite dream, De Gaulle saw in the misty future a far bigger Europe than most of his contemporaries could imagine. "We must envisage the day," he declared, "when, perhaps, in Warsaw, Prague, Pankow, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Belgrade, Tirana and Moscow, the totalitarian Communist regime which still succeeds in keeping these peoples locked up will gradually come to an evolution compatible with our own transformation. Then there would be open to Europe, as a whole, prospects in keeping with its resources and its capabilities." His immediate goal was, no doubt, his pet Europe...