Word: authoritarianism
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...constitution is based on the old 1952 constitution and is cleverly written to conceal its authoritarian bent. One clause excludes from the Chamber of Deputies all men who don't possess a degree stating they've completed what would be a high school education in America. This will, of course, effectively exclude members of the lower and much of the middle class from being elected to the Chamber...
...resisters, the biggest enemies are boredom, lack of privacy, separation from friends and loved ones, and petty harassment by guards. They work as prison-library clerks, auto-shop mechanics, gardeners, dishwashers or launderers. Some of them find the repressive atmosphere of prison just one more reflection of an authoritarian society outside the walls...
More and more U.S. Roman Catholic priests are giving up their parishes for secular life. The reasons are many: some have chafed too long under arbitrary authoritarian discipline; others have succumbed to love of a woman. Still others have, in the old-fashioned phrase, simply lost their faith. While the break with the ministry is still an emotionally harrowing experience for most, this growing battalion of unfrocked clerics are finding it easier to marry, raise a family and get a decent job. The ex-priests are no longer the pariahs of Christianity...
...Brighter Day. The conference simply brushed the Cohn-Bendit walkout aside. Said Italy's Umberto Marzocchi, the occasional chairman (the anarchists' anti-authoritarian philosophy, of course, would have made any more permanent leadership intolerable): "The youth who walked out think that revolution is synonymous with insurrection. They are deluded." The anarchists finally agreed on one thing: that the conference had been a grand success. They proposed to meet again in Paris in 1971 to celebrate the centenary of the Paris Commune. In hopes for better days ahead, of course. "When capitalism crumbles, Communism crumbles with it," mused Maurice...
...central Negro area and after he's been called names and spit at, he'll be prejudiced." A City University of New York sociologist, Arthur Neiderhoifer, agrees that the very nature of a cop's duties tends to "transform him into an authoritarian agent of control." Neiderhoffer, a New York policeman for more than 20 years, writes in his book, Behind the Shield: "The hostility and fear that almost palpably press against a policeman in lower-class areas aggravate his impulse to 'get tough...