Word: authoritarianism
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...reforms: he has modernized the archdiocesan seminary, raised the salaries of lay teachers in parochial schools, let assistant pastors elect two representatives to Chicago's influential board of priest consultors (previously all members had been appointed by the archbishop). By the same token, Cody is something of an authoritarian; both his priests and his parishioners complain that his communications, far from being two-way, consist of his sending the word on down. Last month an ad hoc committee organized three meetings attended by 400 Chicago clerics, recommended that priests have a greater share in formation of archdiocesan policy...
Lacouture's piece on De Gaulle is written with a delicacy that is refreshing in contrast to the mere competence or polemical outrage of the other articles. De Gaulle, according to his longtime observer, is no overbearing dictator in the conventional sense. "Authoritarian by temper, unfit for negotiation, impatient in dispute, he wants to dominate by the highness of his thoughts and depth of his views, not by forcing upon," writes Lacouture...
...committed. You then talk to him as a peer?as your companion in learning?and he begins to behave like one." Schorske does not, however, believe in "being buddy-buddy, or in a libidinous relationship such as they have at Sarah Lawrence." The teacher should be neither "lofty nor authoritarian," but his enthusiasm for communicating a subject should command "a natural respect...
Martin L. Kilson Jr., lecturer on government, asserted that the army is sure to retain control of Ghana. Nkrumah ran "an authoritarian regime with a fair dose of terrorism," Kilson said. He added that the people of Ghana resented Nkrumah's extravagant expenditures to promote the doctrine of Pan-Africanism...
...taking off after the "Movement," the Conservative often uses the same arguments the New Left wields against the Establishment. (The Conservative would do well to learn the difference between the two.) "It is no secret that the leadership of the more militant groups is authoritarian," seems a curious statement until one realizes that "militant" here means Dr. King. Given this clarification, would not some of the real militants in the Movement agree? Or consider: "If the Negro is to be a free man, he cannot be engineered into freedom." Is that not Saul Alinsky surveying the Poverty Program...