Word: constraining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...create from the original consensus by the nations of the world that the U.N. should exist, a power strong enough to constrain the power of any one of them...
...certainly not the traditional idea. The creators of classic Utopias were not much interested in liberating the personality or reaching the inner man. They wanted to constrain the inner man with his ungovernable impulses. They wanted-let us admit it-to repress the personality. "The tyrant of individualism has forever been put down," boasted a 19th century Utopia called The Crystal Button. In a 1903 Utopian novel, Limanora, everyone is deliberately made to work too hard to have time to think about himself or his desires. Those who persist in the glorification of sensory pleasures are exiled to an island...
Which God to cruelties like these constrain...
...existence of this lower class," he wrote, "with its high rates of crime, dependency and general disorderliness, that causes nearby whites (that is to say, working-class whites; the liberals are all in the suburbs) to fear Negroes and to seek by various ways to avoid and constrain them...