Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Technology heavily burdens the two-adult-or what anthropologists call the "nuclear"-family. Modern society demands what Yale Psychologist Kenneth Keniston calls "technological ego dictatorship," a talent for divided living that requires coolly rational behavior at work, reserving feeling for home. Wholeness is often elusive. "Home is where the heart is," but more than one-third of U.S. mothers work at least part time, and some fathers hardly see the kids all week. According to Psychiatric Social Worker Virginia Satir, the average family dinner lasts ten to 20 minutes; some families spend as little as ten minutes a week together...
...Cyprus debacle and warned that their continued rule could lead to chaos and a rebirth of Communism in a country that "twice almost became the Viet Nam of Europe." He called on the colonels "to recognize their duty" and resign. Said he: "Greeks will not allow the maintenance of dictatorship under whatever form...
...Sloan volunteered for paratroop training because the pay was good and it was the fastest way to Vietnam. "It was still Kennedy's war then," Sloane reminisces, "and I believed it when they told me that we were fighting to save the parliamentary democracy of the South from the dictatorship of the North...
...Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was assassinated in Leningrad. It was this event that Stalin chose to use as the excuse to rid himself of all potential opposition-real and imagined-and to inflict the cult of terror that would ensure his dictatorship...
Crumbling Dictatorship. The whole emphasis of the Boston schools, Kozol charges, is on conformity and respect for authority, which has created an "atmosphere of a crumbling dictatorship in time of martial law." It is a serious charge, which Kozol supports with more rhetoric than hard facts. His own prose style is larded with prejudice (School Committee Member Lee "looked out over his half-moon glasses almost like a childish madman"). Some of his statements are pure bathos; when a blackboard falls on a girl's desk, Kozol asks: "Was she saying with those eyes which looked down so steadily...