Word: coercion
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Loss said in his speech that he was faced with three "profound truths"; the first being the critical nature of race relations and the second being the intolerable nature of coercion in the University. The third truth, he said, was that the first two were irreconcilable...
While stating that "whatever combats racism is to that extent good," Loss said that the University "cannot survive if any group, no matter how noble, can act with coercion...
...Communist-dominated coalition against the Germans. While these right-wing groups, many of them former collaborationists, carried out British policy, Churchill set up a parliament under George Papandreou. Tsoucalas argues that this "double structure of power, democratic in the political facade but Royalist-fascist in the forces of coercion, which was gradually built up from 1943, was to be a crucial factor in the future." This policy began a tradition of total independence of the Army from the political sphere...
These ventures in dramatic exploration are also intimately related to an attempt to bridge the we-they gap in the actor-audience relationship-what is popularly called "participatory" theater. In the hands of the Living Theater, this has proved hostile and abrasive, a kind of tyrannical coercion toward brotherhood. An avant-garde group in Los Angeles called The Company is proving that a different approach can produce a loving sense of affinity and communal affection. They have done little-known plays by Ann Jellicoe, who authored The Knack, Megan Terry, who authored Viet Rock, and an adaptation of Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
Subsequently, he said, B.S.U. leaders turned to "tactics of threat and coercion" that resulted in the humiliation of Maurice Jackson, the department head. Jackson, a black, quit Riverside after signing a statement giving the B.S.U. central committee broad veto powers over the hiring of the black studies professors and administrators...