Word: authoritarianism
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Still, HIID officials tend to view Harvard cooperation with regimes generally considered repressive and authoritarian as a liberalizing influence. Frequently, they say, HIID's projects are designed to create new elites and "open up" closed societies. And once involved in an overseas project, HIID officials maintain that Harvard does not simply blindly accept the caveats and guidelines of the host country's government. No matter what the size of the contract, "we're always prepared to pack up and leave if the government asks us to, or if we feel we can't work effectively," says Cole. "But as long...
...nearly evangelical championing of human rights has become his hallmark. Seldom does he hold a press conference, offer a banquet toast or make a speech without mentioning it. At times Carter has been more direct, as when he delayed the sale of small arms and police weapons to the authoritarian governments of Argentina, El Salvador and Uruguay because they violate the human rights of their own dissident citizens. Aware of the controversy the issue has stirred abroad, Carter said to TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "We have a real problem. We don't want to interfere in other countries...
...engage painter: he was no Courbet, but utterly a man of the right. There is no trace of speculative thought in his elaborate allegories. He believed in monarchy, Catholic dogma and the divine right of kings. Fatherless after the age of nine, he reveled in serving strong, authoritarian men. Vitality burgeoning in the midst of a peace guaranteed by authority-such was Rubens' master image. And although he was capable of excruciating flatteries when painting the great (notably his greedy, capricious patroness in France, Marie de Medicis), he seems never, granted his convictions, to have painted an insincere brush...
...similar to those attributed to Rumania's present-day dictator. While ironhandedly ruling his country, Ceausescu credits himself with keeping both Western imperialism and Soviet expansionism at bay. Summing up the lessons of Vlad's reign, one Rumanian historian notes, "The country can only prosper under authoritarian rule." More turgidly, another Communist analyst contends that Vlad exemplifies "love for the fatherland, undaunted support for the high ideals of the people [which] represent a material force capable of curbing the surge of even the mightiest power...
...criticism," wrote the critic Michael Fried in a preface to an earlier Noland museum retrospective in 1965, "can bear or embody or communicate more than trivial meaning." Noland's work was self-critical in the extreme. It seemed made for-not to say, made by-the narrow and authoritarian standards of "tough" formalism, as issued to the world by Clement Greenberg and his epigones in Artforum. Nothing considered inessential to painting remained in it. No representation or symbolism. No drawing except of the most rudimentary and geometrical kind: circles, squares, chevrons, straight fast bands of color...