Word: totalitarianism
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Murray’s rules, posted on the eatery’s walls under the heading “La Crêperie’s Fine Print,” are for the most part framed politely, dispelling any totalitarian comparisons...
...even a brief, strictly controlled visit yields clues that all is not right in Pleasantville. In recent years, growing exposure to the outside world and the spread of grassroots markets around the country appear to have eroded totalitarian controls and changed mindsets in the doggedly Stalinist state. How much is hard to say. But a Russian scholar on our tour notes that the crowds aren't as passionate as they once were. In the 1980s, ?You could see their eyes shining,? says Andrei Lankov, who lived in Pyongyang in 1984-85. ?People are maybe not learning the truth but (they...
...black and white artwork has been done mostly in pencil, with soft shading, capturing a grayed out world devoid of color. His simplified characters inhabit more detailed environments, in the classic European bandes dessinee style, but with Delisle's own spin. Visual jokes also lighten up the grim totalitarian atmosphere. One panel imitates a Sunday comics puzzle, depicting a police lineup of ordinary-looking North Korean citizens with the quiz, "Which one is the spy?" The answer, upside down, reads, "No. 6 because he is not wearing his official Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong...
...widow Jennifer Harting that Sheehan is "dishonoring her son by depicting America so negatively." That kind of thinking gives the government carte blanche to do whatever it wants, knowing that people will follow like sheep. "My country, right or wrong" is a great idea - if you're running a totalitarian regime. In a pluralistic democracy, we need the Cindy Sheehans to speak up and honor their fallen children by telling the truth as they see it. Tamar Wyschogrod Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. Harting stated that "a soldier's job is to follow the President no matter what." It's terrifying...
...widow Jennifer Harting that Sheehan is "dishonoring her son by depicting America so negatively." That kind of thinking gives the government carte blanche to do whatever it wants, knowing that people will follow like sheep. "My country, right or wrong" is a great idea--if you're running a totalitarian regime. In a pluralistic democracy, we need the Cindy Sheehans to speak up and honor their fallen children by telling the truth as they...