Word: authoritarianism
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...nation's literature--the loosening grip of the Catholic Church. "The change in the church has made a lot of (Irish writing) obsolete. When I was first teaching at Harvard, Catholic students could understand what much of Irish literature was about in its reaction to an old and authoritarian church. Now that church is gone, and it is hard even for Catholic students to figure out why writers reacted so strongly against the overwhelming power of the church." Reactions against the church, and against England before the revolution and the new Republican government afterwards spurred most of the great Irish...
...committed the group to a grandiose building (estimated cost: $2 million), and his authoritarian style and outspoken emphasis on politics irritated not only conference conservatives but many local governments. After a dispute with Kenyan authorities, he resigned...
...indication of the restlessness beneath the authoritarian veneer was the scene last week as the government freed the country's last civilian President, Maria Estela Martinez de Perón, 49, after five years of detention. A onetime cabaret dancer, she assumed power after the death in 1974 of her husband, Dictator Juan Domingo Perón, but proved to be woefully incompetent and was jailed in 1976 by the military junta for misusing public property. The military finally arranged her release to remove a rallying point for her still loyal followers, who remain the most potent civilian political...
...center and begin to support a restoration of what Fallows calls the "military spirit," they need many more assurances. If the army is to be used in El Salvador, where we already have military "advisers," then why join? If its goal will be to shoot peasants and defend "authoritarian" regimes, then why wish it better weapons? If the tanks are going to roll into more Vietnams, why should we care if their engines clog with dust...
...Charles de Gaulle. Since the General's death, the Gaullist legacy has continued. While not, in the strictest sense, a Gaullist, Giscard seemed to many to be trying to fit the mold. By the end of his seven-year term, he had evolved from a liberal reformer to an authoritarian figure who fancied himself King, not president. In Mitterand, the French opted for a more humane and less threatening figure...