Word: totalitarianisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goal of the Kirchentag is an active Christianity outside the churches as well as in them-one not so capable of being captured by a totalitarian government as it was in 1933. "The layman who is trying to be as much like a clergyman as possible," Thadden says, "is not the person we need, but the layman who recognizes his Christian vocation in his daily work . . . That is political power in a deeper sense...
...integration of philosophy and play is attempted by setting up one person as the personification of an Idea. Alex Minotis, playing Domingo Alvero, is a South American dictator who exists on the belief that the robust man, the forceful man, can carry out his idea through totalitarian force. There are two other ideas involved in the play: first, that Alvero's is definitely wrong, that progress should be achieved by another process, and secondly, the present American ideal of democracy...
This is the end of the story, but two implications deserve emphasis. In the first place, the police used totalitarian-tinged methods. Secondly, it appears that these are the only facilities for ping-pong in the neighborhood acoessible to the boys. Perhaps these two facts will help explain why next fall the Cambridge youth will be cheering for the Bulldogs. Albert E. Trieschman 1G David M. Heer...
...need more good American Catholics "who will speak out against the American hierarchy and their totalitarian, anti-democracy, anti-public schools, antifreedom of thought, anti-anything-they-don't-control attitude...
...Saigon, after a reporting tour of Indo-China, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene applied for a U.S. visa, ran smack into the clause of the McCarran exclusion act which automatically forbids U.S. entry to any alien who was ever a member of a totalitarian party. Greene's difficulty: during his Oxford days in the early '20s, he joined the Communist Party "as a prank," paid dues for a month before he dropped out, later to become a soul-searching Roman Catholic. In Washington, the State Department turned the Greene case over to the Justice...