Word: totalitarianization
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...football games are attended exclusively by the Harvard Band. The only time that Harvard pride rears its head is the week of the Harvard-Yale football game when Harvardians break their habits and get decked out in pure crimson.While Germans contend with the ghosts of a totalitarian regime in their recent past, Harvardians suffer from the embarrassment of riches, as students at the world’s most famous university. But the fact of their sheepishness is the same; for fear of being prejudged, each conceals his affiliation to a group with a prominent place in popular imagination.Are these fears...
...Stanley Kubrick used his music in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, giving him a new fan base of trippy, psychedelic teens; in Vienna. As a young composer, he was afraid to write down the modern pieces he heard in his head for fear of government retaliation ("totalitarian regimes do not like dissonances," he wrote). After escaping communist Hungary, he wrote polyphonous, unpredictably paced concertos, chamber pieces and other works, including one opera, Le Grand Macabre, which opens with the sound of honking cars and is now one of his best-known works...
...ailing mother by pretending the Wall is still standing and the G.D.R. is intact. That may be an amusing concept for most cinemagoers. For many east Germans, struggling to find their feet in the new realities of a reunited Germany, and missing the rigid certainties of life in a totalitarian state, it struck a deeper chord. In retrospect the G.D.R. really didn't seem all that malign, just a bit comical with its puttering cars, camp displays of military might and empty shelves. But now, it seems, east Germans may finally be ready to take a colder, harder look...
...from noxious fumes. Restaurant patrons, they cry, have a “right” to eat in a smoke-free environment, and bar workers should never be “forced” to work in a smoky haze. And these hypocrite liberal lecteurs know the solution: a totalitarian-minded ban on smoking in public places...
...chapters worldwide. The event featured a screening of the 2004 documentary “Seoul Train,” which shows North Korean refugees seeking asylum in border countries such as China and South Korea. North Koreans who have escaped from Kim Jong Il’s totalitarian regime to bordering China have been sent back to North Korea to face imprisonment or execution, according to Amnesty International. China is a party to the UN Refugee Convention, and human rights activists say that China is required to grant asylum to North Korean refugees under that convention. Lee said he hopes...