Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only because Germany seems to produce philosophers and theologians as Australia produces tennis players, but because few countries in the world have been so shaken by the 20th century. Tillich's parents came from the two main strains of the solid, stolid German middle class: the stark, authoritarian Prussians on his father's side (he was a prominent Lutheran clergyman), the sentimental, gemütlich Rhinelanders on his mother's (she was a schoolteacher). Tillich has been acutely aware of the two temperamental traditions at war within him. "In the East [of Germany]," as he has described...
...Deputies in the Assembly to do as she says-no one dares oppose her. Continually threatened by Ho Chi Minh's Communist North Viet Nam, President Diem rules strongly, spends more money on jails than on schools. South Viet Nam must be scored a pro-Western country with authoritarian overtones. But in 1954, when Indo-China was carved up, few gave it any hope at all of surviving...
...being frank and outspoken is much greater among politicians; they have the feeling of a real need for conformity." And it is the political need to conform which Lattimore sees as the real threat to society. It is this need, he points out, which leads to "a paternalistic authoritarian attitude" on the part of a government which "rests on the assumption that a man will believe in communism if he is exposed to it. This seems to me an appalling lack of confidence in the virtues of democracy. A democracy that has to be shielded from opinions...
Politically, CELAM will favor "flexible" democracy rather than the authoritarian governments it once preferred. It will support welfare programs to attract workers. Said one prelate: "The church in Latin America has awakened to the fact that Christian sociology is not incompatible with a great number of modern social concepts. The church believes in narrowing the gap between classes. There will always be rich and poor, but they need not be so far apart as they are in Latin America...
Last night--in a peaceful Vermont valley--the police society destroyed the greatest attempt ever to symbolize Harvard-Radcliffe unity. The Kampus Kuties' arrest by the so-called forces of law and order proves that an authoritarian regime will take all possible steps to keep Harvard and Radcliffe separate and unequal. In behalf of that majority of the Radcliffe student body which wanted to lead cheers at Harvard, this newspaper must protest...