Word: totalitarian
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...right of everyone" to a job, fair wages, adequate housing, education and "a continuous improvement of living conditions." These goals are desirable, but if a government determinedly set out to provide them "for everyone" (which it could not do anyway), it would have to become even more totalitarian than, say, the Soviet Union...
...tension in American academic and civil-service life at the present time springs from the intransigence of Senator McCarthy on the one hand, but on the other hand from the widespread adherence, amongst the younger university men in America, to the monstrous falsehood (and to the belief in a totalitarian state, which it implies) that all human actions, political, cultural or religious, arise ultimately from economic causes...
...Eight years of striving to Bolshevize East Germany in the Soviet image failed in the uprising of June 17. In the westernmost, and in many ways the most strategic, outpost of the Kremlin orbit, people rose up, without arms or organization or leaders, against the whole strength of a totalitarian regime and the Soviet army of occupation. They were suppressed, and not one inch of ground was wrenched from beneath the Red flag. But in their audacity, the East Germans 1) exposed their bosses as scarecrows propped up only by Soviet guns, 2) obliged the Kremlin to promise a reversal...
Disturbing statistic: of 2,700,000 youths from 21 to 25 voting for the first time, 1,200,000 voted for the totalitarian left, less than a million for the democratic center. Palmiro Togliatti's Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists had been expected only to hold their own. In the last days of the campaign, a U.S. Senate committee hearing 4,000 miles away gave the leftists effective ammunition for crumbling one of the pillars of De Gasperi's campaign-his ability to keep U.S. aid flowing to Italy. Communist newspapers and orators recited...
...expected to act this way wished they know that college officials, that group in education most prone to compromise academic freedom in the past, will stand behind them. Our universities have a responsibility to the public and themselves to expel teachers who have broken the law, or whose totalitarian beliefs so twist their teaching and research to render them unfit for their profession. But they have an equal responsibility to make sure the implication of unfitness that springs from use of the Fifth Amendment, membership in subversive groups, or any other indirect evidence is backed up by fact before...