Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past ten years men of good will, trying to escape the Left-Right dilemma, have been bravely challenging defeat, whooping up democracy, deploring dictatorship, condemning war, and agreeing that not much can be done about it all. To reflective witnesses, however, even the best "liberal" thinking has seemed about as far behind the times as Montesquieu's and Jefferson's was ahead of theirs. Parkes's book catches up with history. A young (34) history instructor at New York University, previously known for a brilliant History of Mexico and for a few remarkably lucid essays...
...which could end the present battle, for there is a vital procedural question involved. It is the matter of democracy in the conduct of Harvard's affairs, and it can be appreciated only by surveying fully a background which includes the formal democracy of President Eliot and the benevolent dictatorship of President Lowell. Now the Faculty, stung by the Administration's hasty and somewhat arbitrary action in the acceptance of the Committee of Eight's report, is once more demanding a greater voice in management. Although the final result may come only in the long run, here too the Administration...
...often have we been told we are the effete democracies whose day is done, and who must now be replaced by various forms of virile dictatorship and totalitarian despotism? No doubt at the beginning we shall have to suffer, because of having too long wished to lead a peaceful life...
Question before the house was whether democracy's schools are a match for dictatorship's. Panic-stricken by the dictatorships' single-track efficiency in grinding out Nazis, Communists who know just what is expected of them, most of Survey Graphic's experts gloomily concluded that democracy's schools are not at the moment prepared to meet the competition. Because U. S. schools (like the U. S. people) do not pretend to know all the answers, these experts proposed that what U. S. Education needs is a big blue print...
...John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland quit. Apparent reason for his resignation was a decision by Chancellor Bowman to purify Pitt athletics, but insiders knew that Jock had become fed up with Dr. Bowman. As Jock walked out, students staged a boisterous strike, proclaimed : "We've had enough of this dictatorship." Alumni began to demand that "Big John" and "Little John" (roly-poly Business Manager John Weber, John Bowman's right-hand man) resign. "At the request of Chancellor Bowman," the trustees hastily appointed a committee to investigate Dr. Bowman's administration...