Word: totalitarianisms
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...past. The "ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined by Antonio Sant Elia in 1914, Ludwig Hilberseimer in 1928 and Le Corbusier in 1934, has a nightmarish, totalitarian quality, akin to George Orwell's 1984 foreboding of a boot in the face. It seems incredible that many of the most talented and renowned designers in the Aspen tent had once believed in and fought for these visions...
...imply that the Sandinistas may have to negotiate a political accommodation with the contras along the lines of the negotiated power sharing that some leftists in El Salvador are seeking. Some U.S. officials would like to see the eventual collapse of the Managuan government, which has become increasingly totalitarian in its domestic policies, and increasingly unpopular. Certainly that is what the Sandinistas believe is the main Administration motive. Said Ramirez: "If he could do it, Reagan would finish us off with a neutron bomb. But he can't, so he's using the contras instead." For its part...
...telling the truth about the Spartacus Youth League, Michael Anderson invited the predictable, totalitarian wrath of this "workers" vanguard" of spoiled children. In their May 10 offensive, they call Anderson a "cold war liberal," a "take-leftist," a "self-proclaimed Marxist," a "plain hard," an "apologist for the real Stalinists," and most damning of all, a "Friend...
...Socialists of America, a group that was attacked in two of the "Spart" letters that appeared in the May 9 edition of The Crimson. I felt it might be useful to explain why members of the democratic Left find the Spartacist Youth League so objectionable. Firstly, the Sparts are totalitarians, and secondly, they are bozos. A brief discussion with a Spart about the issue of Poland will convince anyone of their basic sympathy with totalitarianism. A consideration of their attempt to sabotage the Local 26 rally is symptomatic of the second characteristic. On the day before the rally, the Sparts...
...stifling oppressiveness of the totalitarian world, there is no escape--only alienation. When the cup of satire is drained and the bracing giddiness wears off, we are left to stare at the bottom which holds nothing but tragedy...