Word: despot
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Obviously, with so much power vested in a single man, the country could drift into dictatorship. Mujib pledged last week that he would preserve democratic rights, and not many can imagine him in the role of a tyrannical despot. Still, more than a few people in Bangladesh may well feel that a small dose of authoritarianism would be preferable to the complete collapse of their young country...
...Hospital for his internship. There he came under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Loeb, a great physician who co-edited what has since become one of medicine's standard texts: Cecil & Loeb's Textbook of Medicine. The association was a fortunate one for Laragh. "Loeb was a despot, but a benevolent one," Laragh recalls. "He was fair but demanding, and his standards were the highest." Loeb was also a first-rate teacher who did not believe in spoiling his pupils by assigning laboratory technicians to help them. "I had to do every experiment myself," says Laragh...
...Preservation was released as two separate albums, or "Acts." Act I, setting the stage, presents three characters or archetypes based upon the three sides of Davies's shifting personality. There is Mr. Black, the original altruist and vanguard of the people, who gradually is tranformed into a crazy, tyrannical despot as his power increases. Then there is Flash, a corrupt gangster-like politician currently in power, whose mere presence is a cause for alarm among the people. Finally there is the Tramp, a social dropout who acts as the detached narrator and is probably the character with whom Davies identifies...
Died. Sibyl Mary Hathaway, 90, Dame of Sark, a tiny English Channel island that she ruled as a benevolent feudal despot (see THE WORLD...
...Fanfani, who was emerging as Italy's most powerful politician, the failure of the referendum was a bruising personal setback. "Until now Fanfani has run the Christian Democrats like a despot," said a Socialist official. "He won't be able to do that any more." The Communists, generally delighted by the outcome of the referendum, may find that the Christian Democrats' weakness will dim prospects for the "historic compromise" between left and right that Enrico Berlinguer has proposed between Italy's two largest parties...