Word: authoritarianism
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...Pope is so authoritarian that there is no possibility of unity with any other church in his lifetime." In the first encyclical of his reign, Pope John Paul II warned that "correct limits must be maintained" in the search for Christian unity, which "in no way [means] giving up or in any way diminishing the treasures of divine truth that the church has constantly confessed and taught." John Paul, with his well-publicized disciplinary policies regarding two progressive theologians, West Germany's Hans Küng and the Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of The Netherlands, has probably slowed down...
...merely a disagreement on principles that pushed the adversaries into a head-on military clash last week; a combination of errors, miscalculations and inflexibility on both sides seemed to block the road to peaceful, settlement from the beginning. On the Argentine side, the military junta's own secretive, authoritarian-leadership style blinded it to international realities and locked it into a position from which retreat was almost impossible. The junta disregarded the blunt warning from Secretary of State Haig that "U.S. friendship would be at risk" if the Argentines attacked. According to Washington analysts, the original decision to invade...
...become endemic." And he sees it in a compulsory class on Marxism which he attended one day at Peking University: an embarrassed teacher is unable to elicit a response from her students on what are the basic principles of socialism. "China," Butterfield dryly notes, "has become an authoritarian country with an authority crisis...
That this is, indeed, a terrifyingly authoritarian country the reporter hammers home throughout the book. The tight monitoring of the people, the stifling of free movement, the indoctrinating effect of loudspeakers everywhere--in fact, all the techniques of modern totalitarianism--are well developed in the China, we are told. This government control is, oddly enough, more psychological than physical. Constant monitoring by neighborhood groups and workplace authorities usually make overt police and military brutality unnecessary. "The constant exposure to publilc scrutiny and peer pressure makes life in China like living in an army barrack," Butterfield writes...
...attitude is, 'There is a job to do, and we don't give a damn what problems you might have.' " A study commissioned by Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis shortly after the strike began and released last March showed that management practices were still unnecessarily authoritarian. Said the report: "Supervisors tend to 'vector' people like they did airplanes. It doesn't work well...