Word: authoritarianism
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Alan's father is a do-gooding socialist printer and a self-righteous authoritarian moralist who gets his after-hours kicks at skin flicks. At the stable where he works on weekends, Alan is sexually aroused by a pert, enticing co-employee (Roberta Maxwell). In a nude scene that precedes the play's climax, they try to make love but Alan falters. He feels that the eyes of his gods watch and condemn him. Then the horror begins...
...sometimes talked rather more like a Harvard historian than a pragmatic diplomat-negotiator. To aides, newsmen and foreign officials, Kissinger allowed that he feared the possibility of political instability in parts of Europe and that some nations, as a result of the economic crisis, might in desperation embrace authoritarian forms of government...
...private meetings, he is the authoritarian "Master" Moon who claims to be "greater than Jesus himself" and says, "God is now throwing Christianity away and is now establishing a new religion, and this new religion is Unification Church ... We have only one way." Other in-group speeches have proclaimed, "I am your brain" and "The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world...
...inability to oppose Turkey's invasion of Cyprus, experts expected nothing more than the replacement of one general by another. Or, they feared, younger ultranationalist officers bent on war against Turkey and unification of Cyprus and Greece might attempt a coup and make Greece even more militant and authoritarian. Instead, there was a mass exodus of almost the entire military cadre from the government...
Juan Carlos' education consisted of rigorous training in military academies and indoctrination in Franco's authoritarian philosophy. When the Caudillo officially selected him over Don Juan as the future King, his father's resentment increased the Prince's isolation. Franco has made Juan Carlos keep a low political profile. His few official functions, like cutting ribbons and dedicating projects, have been largely ceremonial. His public utterances have revealed little of his ideas about ruling Spain and his future role as King...