Word: authoritarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting exercise at Harvard during the short, cold days and long, colder nights ahead. The emphasis here is on activities that you can do alone, that don't require a lot of fancy equipment, that are not competitive, and that can be done in a non-hierarchical, non-authoritarian framework. (Note: Many of these suggestions come from friends who shall remain nameless to protect the real yahoos from the ridicule they deserve...
However gentle historians try to be with Francisco Franco [Dec. 1], in the end they will have to agree his 36-year rule was cruel, ruthless, rigidly authoritarian-right wing, not quite fascist...
FRANCO'S DEATH opens the way for Spain to throw off the shackles of his authoritarian state and to recommence the process of building an egalitarian, democratic Spain begun under the Second Republic. But there are many obstacles on this path. King Juan Carlos, Franco's designated successor, is a creature of the official politicians Franco left behind. He is sworn to uphold the principles of the Franco state and refused to promise change in his inaugural address. The amnesty Juan Carlos announced last week for political prisoners has been justly denounced by the leaders of the democratic opposition...
...DEATH OF Generalissimo Francisco Franco ten days ago was long overdue. For 36 years Franco subjected Spain to authoritarian rule, maintained by ruthless repression of all civil and political liberties. As much at the end of his reign as immediately after the Civil War, Franco prohibited all political activity outside the official apparatus of his regime, from freedom of the press to the right to strike. He punished offenders unhesitatingly with long prison terms, and in cases when he felt his regime endangered, Franco resorted to public executions, as with Basque separatists earlier this year...
...ward doctor himself, who looks like an authoritarian Alan Watts, admits that "Though we do not over-medicate patients...everybody needs a little to get to sleep." Patients soon forget, or lose interest in, which of their symptoms are drug-induced and which self-produced. One describes experiencing an "atomic war" in his room; most likely it was the heat and intense light of the ward, refracted through a double dosage of thorazine...