Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Snow's criticism of Peking's authoritarian excesses sometimes seemed too low-key. The reason was, perhaps, that Snow saw himself as a contributor to better relations between Peking and Washington. To the end, he was interested in preserving his precious contacts against the day of just such an event as the Nixon trip. That visit, Snow said, could open "a new era of Far Eastern and world politics...
FIRST Barry Boys and then Yevtushenko read his well-known, early poem. "The City of Yes and the City of No," a poem heavy with dramatic contrasts between the intensities of anger and passivity. For the authoritarian "City of No", the piano grand slammed assorted dissonant chords; for the permissive "City of Yes" it bubbled in a kind of water music when it was not sneaking, like a villainous lover, up the winding stairs to the tower bedroom. The music and poetry were well co-ordinated. Yevtushenko almost broke into a rasping song. Teasing the audience who knew the poem...
...than hate turned upon a whole social and economic system, and those who benefit handsomely from it. So the worker I quoted above shouts loudest at blacks when he is most angry at those 'vested interests' he keeps on mentioning--and not necessarily because his 'personality' is rigid or 'authoritarian...
...concept of "psychedelic fascism," which Sanders encountered in his investigations into many satanist cults, has received a large amount of play in the media, and refers to the way in which psychedelics are used to brainwash and subjugate people into a strict authoritarian lifestyle, usually centered on the demands and needs of one leader. It is this which worries Ed Sanders most. "Young people need to know the techniques a guru or so-called leader might use to entrap them in a web of submission so that they can keep a constant vigil against it," warns Sanders in his preface...
...Catholic Revolution" has in reality been two pronged, with the prongs pointed in opposite directions. It is the revolt of the elite middle against the authoritarian hierarchy above and the ignorant masses below. As such, it follows a classic revolutionary pattern, including the fact that it masquerades as a spontaneous popular uprising, while concealing the fact that special groups will be its primary beneficiaries...