Word: authoritarianism
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...fend off the Powers of the unknown ("Can Jesus deliver a drug addict? Can Jesus deliver a homosexual?") and to realize symbolic economic success in traditional ways ("I resolved to use that Cadillac for God.") These survivors of the rural lower middle class put their faith in an authoritarian figure who facilitates an escape from their repression while promising the persistence of a social order in which they believe. Theirs is a war against both the rich and the urban poor, the activist workers and students, and the wealthy urban and suburban capitalists. The willingness of the paranoid elderly...
...McGovern is Benway's commitment to "total nonviolence." Says he: "Kids with guns aren't allowed in our yard. We're trying to stress that we feel killing is bad." He sees an ethic of militarism in Nixon: "We're supposedly a democracy, and yet we're approaching an authoritarian state here...
...national elections that reminded citizens of their constitutional right to cross out names on the one-party list of candidates. Yet the real aim of the trial was obviously to intimidate Dubček's followers so that they would not seek any liberalization of the rigid authoritarian rule that the Russians have forced Husák to reimpose on the country. After several days of court sessions, from which foreign press and public were barred, the judges imposed sentences of up to six years on former Party Theoretician Jaromir Litera, Sociologist Rudolf Battek, Historian Jan Tesa...
Presumably because police officers represent authority and often have to exercise it, there has been a tradition in some quarters that they should be trained by rigid, authoritarian methods. Such was the notion in the academy for rookie policemen in the Los Angeles county sheriff's department. "We had been committed to a high-stress program," says Assistant Sheriff Howard H. Earle, "a Pavlov's-dog style of conditioning the trainee by stress so that he would not panic when he got into a stressful situation on the job." But as social attitudes changed during...
Dirty Harry--A hack detective thriller directed by the talented Don Siegel from a script laden with authoritarian preaching. Clint Eastwood, perhaps the least talented superstar of all time, is Harry. With The Omega Mess, Charlton Heston in humdrum sci-fi. ASTOR. Harry: 1:15, 4:40. Omega...