Word: totalitarianism
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...forefathers came from dictatorial, totalitarian rules. These people who fled Europe and came to the North American continent had a great suspicion of too much power," Evans says, adding that the founding fathers were aware of the corruptive nature of power. "The whole idea of the legislature was to slow down the political process...You just have to have a lot of persistence...
...holds numerous awards and honors for his plays, which include The Garden Party and Largo Desolato; essays The Power of the Powerless; and Letters to Olga, a collection of missives that he wrote to his wife while in prison. Havel's work reflects the struggle of citizens in a totalitarian state. Although he is both produced and published abroad, his work has been banned in Czechoslovakia since 1969 and must circulate underground...
...REVOIR LES ENFANTS Tragedy awaits, irony abounds in this memoir of friendship and betrayal in a boarding school during World War II. Without italicizing a single emotion, French director Louis Malle has created the year's strongest indictment of the totalitarian mind and the conformist soul...
...most profound quarrel many Westerners have with the Soviets is that their totalitarian system represses the individual. But Gorbachev stressed the Soviet goal of creating a "world community of states based on the rule of law." Sounding more like Jefferson than Lenin, he spoke of "ensuring the rights of the individual," guaranteeing "freedom of conscience" and forbidding persecution based on "political or religious beliefs...
...director says he thinks he has interpreted the show very differently from other productions of "Evita." "I see it as a colder production than ones that are usually done. `Evita' is a cynical, harsh portrayal of a totalitarian regime," Fratto says. "To accent this perception, I stripped down the music to a hard-edge,rock score," he says...