Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promoted to full professorships. These proposals are neither impractical nor startling. Both were implied in the Committee of Eight's Report, and the "frozen" associate professorships have been urged by the Crimson, the Progressive and the high-sounding "Committee to Save Harvard Education." Skirting the broad issue of dictatorship (however benevolent) versus democracy in Harvard's administration, the Council has wisely focussed its attention on the two means best calculated to resuscitate those departments which were tossed over-board last June...
Lenin's great experiment established a dictatorship, nominally "of the proletariat," actually of the Communist Party and eventually of Stalin alone. New class distinctions arose between workers, managers and bureaucrats. The Soviet Government has so far shown no signs of withering away-though Communists expect it eventually to do so. Meanwhile outside Russia the sometimes heroic Communist International has been effective in nothing so much as in scaring the pants off the middle class...
...ignorance, thinks capable Biographer Rourke (Gómez: Tyrant of the Andes), is a gauge of "a century of misunderstandings and suspicions between the two Americas." A knowledge of Bolívar, he believes, would go far to explain South Americans' history and temperament, particularly their tendency toward dictatorship. For it was that tendency which set Bolívar's main problems, finally wrecked his great dream of a pan-American union...
...battles, over an area almost the size of the U. S., twice fled to exile after complete disaster, made his comeback in some of the most spectacular forced marches and brilliant battles in military history. Simultaneously he battled his compatriots to establish a democracy which would be foolproof against dictatorship...
...female camp followers around the campfire, would break off abruptly to dictate (in Spanish, French or English) his fast, polished sentences to a secretary. He pardoned his venal aides, refused to feather his own nest, praised his generals unstintedly. He deliberately resigned as Supreme Chief in order to discourage dictatorship...