Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medical director of the Dianetics Research Foundation, and tried to guide it along what he considered sound scientific lines. Now, in A Doctor's Report on Dianetics (Julian Press; $3.50), he thinks he made a mistake. Founder Hubbard, says a disillusioned Dr. Winter, became more & more "absolutistic and authoritarian"; the foundation became less & less interested in research, more interested in spreading the word. Last winter Winter flounced out. He was finding orthodox dianetics "ritualistic and sterile...
...Conservative government against Liberal opponents, has ravaged great portions of the country. Upwards of 20,000 people have been killed. Farmers dispossessed by the police have formed guerrilla gangs out for vengeance and supplies (see below). Meanwhile, under a "state of siege" now 21 months old, aging (62) authoritarian Laureano Gómez rules highhandedly...
...making a mistake, as in last winter's closing of La Prensa, he does not hesitate to say so. In his new job, he can at least tell the Peróns what the U.S. is likely to think of some of their authoritarian antics...
...consolidating his power, Perón avoided some obvious authoritarian pitfalls. Though some of his noisy followers were antiSemitic, Perón repudiated Jew-baiting. Instead of putting opponents in concentration camps, he simply ruined them economically. If newspaper publishers criticized his regime, he might close them for poor lighting, or sanitary conditions in their printing plants. (In all, 100 papers and magazines were shut down.) If a drug manufacturer refused to cooperate, the Health Ministry padlocked his plant on a charge that his drugs were impure. Since most of Perón's opponents were well...
...picture of a totalitarian church at war with U.S. democracy. His new one is Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power. It enlarges on and reiterates his earlier theme, but something new is added: the Kremlin and the Vatican are really quarreling brothers under the skin, each trying to set up "authoritarian control over the minds...