Word: authoritarianism
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...Olympic Ticket Committee misprinted about 400 tickets, leading many United States vs. Norway fans into the wrong arena at the right time. The police guarding the door to the right rink turn spectators away sternly, repeating, "I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do about it." They are authoritarian clones, faceless and infuriating among all the hope and faith. "Go to the Chamber of Commerce," is another one of their favorite lines...
...Petersburg, Fla. A third-generation clergyman and twin brother of Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul was a Congregationalist minister before deciding that "Christianity is so full of fraud that any honest man should repudiate the whole shebang and espouse atheism instead." His broadsides against the church's "authoritarian control over the minds of men," something he equated with Stalinism, and its "unAmerican" involvement in the affairs oi state education later found echoes in federal bans on prayer in public schools and aid to parochial schools...
Sports Jean-Pierre Soisson: "The Olympics are a sporting event, not a political affair." That, of course, is not true. The Olympics long ago became politicized, with authoritarian societies like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sparing no effort to train their athletes-all in the hopes of piling up gold medals as proof of the superiority of their political systems...
...jubilant Indira declared that her party had won "entirely on my name." Indeed, there was little doubt that the country had responded once again to the dynastic magic of the daughter of India's venerated first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Apparently forgotten were her authoritarian ways: the coercive programs of enforced male sterilization and slum clearance that took place during the emergency, the arrest of tens of thousands of political opponents, the censorship of the press. Mrs. Gandhi had successfully appealed to the elemental needs and concerns of India's rural masses with her two election slogans: "Banish...
...always was an authoritarian film director and, on television, an acerbic mystery-show host. But advancing age has banked some of the old fire, and at 80, Sir Alfred Hitchcock is likely to be, as Chaucer put it, "a verray parfit gentil knight." Hitchcock's name as Knight Commander of the British Empire appeared on Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's honors list, the only show-biz personality knighted this year. Fittingly, he received formal notification of the honor at a ceremony in the commissary at Universal City Studios. Why, Hitchcock was asked, had it taken...