Word: authoritarianism
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...Cassius in Julius Caesar. Though the world has made a villain out of Cassius, the leader of the plot to kill Caesar, the scion of political iconoclasts knew that he was really a good fellow. "Cassius was sympathetic to me," he says. "He hated tyranny and he was anti-authoritarian." Also, he adds, "Cassius was the smartest man in the play...
Those "services" include a necessity to deal with students not as potential lawbreakers but as members of a diverse community that traditionally values dissent, the report says. Consequently, the University police must choose between the "authoritarian" Gorski approach and a policy of "selective enforcement," it adds...
revolution, bureaucracy and Russian tradition. Revolution, once but briefly, was everything; years ago tradition and bureaucracy defeated it. The Revolution has ended by instituting a new form of authoritarian state, quite reactionary, now ruled by a gerontocracy (average age of Politburo members...
Since the CIA-backed coup that brought him to power in 1953, Shah Mohammed Pahlevi has ruled Iran with a ruthless authoritarian hand. It is now estimated that over 300,000 people have passed through the Shah's prisons in the past 20 years, and that an average of 1500 people are arrested each year. Professors and political dissidents critical of the regime are brutally tortured, and the Shah's police monitor all aspects of public activity...
Sociologist David Reisman, Jr. '31, Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, said yesterday he has never been convinced students here are apathetic. In fact, he said, he believes students have continued to hold anti-authoritarian and anti-establishment views through the '70s; it is only the lack of clear issues and a conciliatory administration that keeps them off the streets...