Word: coercion
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Kilson charged that the actions "amounted to a form of intellectual coercion inasmuch as the purpose was to harass, limit, or suppress publication by me of a version of my Bulletin articles in The New York Times Magazine...
...final decision lies with the CHUL. It can either attempt to consider the personal feelings of students, or it can arbitrarily take steps to achieve what it considers to be the "perfectly-mixed" House -- even if coercion is necessary. What we who desire to be placed in Claverly ask of the CHUL is this: think of us as people, not numbers. Think about our feelings and our enjoyment of the next three years of our "Harvard experience," and not just about social quotas. If the CHUL does this, the solutions we are all aiming for will be much more easily...
...George Orwell's dark vision, the year 1984 would see the triumph of totalitarianism in Europe-an era of Newspeak and Doublethink, of dictatorial cruelty and dehumanizing coercion. That fateful year is now little more than a decade away, and it seems less and less plausible that Orwell's grim prophecy will be proved correct. William Davis, German-born editor of Britain's national humor magazine Punch, has a somewhat cheerier view of what 1984 will really be like. His imaginary scenario, written for TIME...
...leaders, Charles Pernasilice and John Hill, both accused of beating a guard to death shortly after the riot broke out; the offense still carries the possibility of the death penalty in New York. The array of charges against other inmates includes the murder of a fellow convict, assault, coercion and even the theft of a prison...
...undercurrent of thought challenged the notion of the whole self in healthy, happy, honest relation to society. Diderot and Hegel alike accused society of encouraging flattery, dissimulation, and schizoid from one's own true self. A darker search arose for the "authentic" self, a search which implicitly denounced the coercion of society and disbelieved the wholeness of self. While the arts took new inspiration from this quest, they too came under suspicious scrutiny, Emma Bovary and Nietache's "Culture-Philistine" are both testimony to the seductive inauthenticity of a life modeled on the directives of art. The institution of literary...