Word: authoritarianism
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...Soviets accept Solzhenitsyn's messianic vision of a Russia straining against its chains, yearning for some spiritual revolution that will throw off Communist rule and replace it at least temporarily with an ill-defined "authoritarian order founded on love of one's fellowman." The Soviet Union's other giant of opposition, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, has been promulgating a very different sort of dissent lately from his internal exile in the industrial city of Gorky. Sakharov is a liberal in the Western mold, a believer in pluralist democracy. But neither alternative seems to reflect the aspirations of the Soviet masses...
...student demonstrations in Seoul. The protests were aimed mostly against the martial law that has been in effect ever since the assassination of President Park Chung Hee seven months ago. The specific targets of these protests: the ineffectual President Choi Kyu Hah, 60, and, most of all, the authoritarian figure behind the President, Lieut. General Chun, 48. As both the head of the Defense Security Command and acting director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Chun was already being regarded as the country's offstage military ruler...
This is not a film for the masses, Syberberg seems to say in every frame. The authoritarian director guides the work through monologues, dialogues with Hitler, the confessions of Himmler and Hitler, all of it set in the same small studio. The props reconstruct a dream world--often surrealistic--and the actors walk amidst the mannequins in front of slide projections of Hitler's Obersalzburg mansion, his party rallies, old photographs. There are four parts, 22 chapters, and significant hunks of the work deliberately bore, like a condescending challenge, 'Are you good enough to keep up with...
...then, does someone like Laurence Malin--who could have done other things with his time--spend several years struggling with McLean? Malin, who is working on a book on world human rights based partially on his extensive travels, finds it "an unacceptable anomaly that while we condemn the authoritarian countries of the world for their repression of speech--Sakharov and the others--we allow a similar repression of speech in America's workplaces...
...Friedman and I are deeply disturbed by the breakdown of Chile's long tradition of democracy and freedom. We profoundly oppose authoritarian regimes, whether from the right or left. That is why we have consistently maintained a distance between ourselves and the government of Chile and have repeatedly condemned publicly and privately, its repressive measures...