Word: authoritarianism
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Under this increasingly repressive situation, the Pinochet regime held a constitutional plebiscite on September 11, 1980 with the aim of legitimizing authoritarian rule. This vote was nothing short of a distortion of basic democratic principles. The Junta rejected the idea that alternative constitutional proposals appear on the ballot. The government required that every Chilean over 18 vote; if not, they would be imprisoned. There were no voter registration lists. If a person left his or her ballot blank, it was counted as a pro-government vote. Finally, all votes were counted by The Junta in secret with no independent observers...
...tough measures against the neo-Nazis. The increasingly militant Jewish community will keep the political pressure at high pitch. If the police are unable to control the terrorists, the outcry for law-and-order will doubtlessly escalate. In that event, the authorities must take care not to be more authoritarian than the fascist fringe. "Can we keep cool?" Rémond asks. "That is the wager." -By Stephen Smith. Reported by Sandra Burton and Alessandra Stanley/Paris
Meantime from the podium he projected another character of his own creation, the cosmopolitan, eccentric lecturer: authoritarian but also authoritative, alternately mock-stern and mischievous (he sometimes started over in mid-lecture, to see how long it would take the class to notice), arrogant yet never harsh, in fact downright kindly at times. After explaining that the transformed Gregor Samsa in Kafka's The Metamorphosis was not a cockroach but a beetle, and that beneath his carapace he possessed unsuspected wings, Nabokov told his students: "This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your...
...Remember Abbott and Costello in Buck Privates? Or that lamebrained Martin and Lewis movie with the unforgettable musical number--"The navy gets the gravy/But the army gets the beans/Beans, beans, beans..."? These films, and a hundred like them, showed us that being trained to kill people in a brutally authoritarian institution could be fun, in fact, downright hilarious. Just when it seemed that Vietnam had bombed the service comedy into oblivion, Hollywood has chosen not only to revive the genre but to add an insipidly trendy twist by making the first supposedly feminist service comedy. Imagine a cross between Gomer...
...military strongman, to muzzle any vestiges of political opposition. The popular, soft-spoken Kim had won 46% of the vote against President Park Chung Hee in the country's 1971 presidential election. Afterward, in voluntary exile abroad, he became an active spokesman against Park's authoritarian rule. In 1973 he was kidnaped from a Tokyo hotel room by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and dragooned back to Seoul. He remained under house arrest and later imprisonment until 1978. In the brief hiatus of political relaxation that followed Park's assassination last October, Kim was considered the foremost...