Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unbelieving Boxer. In Why England Slept, it is Kennedy's argument that a democracy challenged by an aggressive dictatorship must prepare for war as if it really means to fight. In a still pertinent analogy Kennedy wrote: "A boxer cannot work himself into proper psychological and physical condition for a fight that he seriously believes will never come off." Kennedy unemotionally traced the misconceptions and the soporifics that lulled England during the prewar years. There was too much reliance upon the moribund League of Nations and the attenuated Disarmament Conference; too little attention was paid to the avowed long...
...thrill came one February night four years ago in Cuba's Oriente province. Led there by intermediaries. Matthews sat for three 'hours with a bearded and gabby young guerrilla leader named Fidel Castro, puffing Havana cigars and discussing, in whispers, Castro's plans to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The rendezvous with Castro did indeed produce an impressive scoop. Until Matthews' three-part series appeared in the Times, much of the world had been led to believe Castro dead, his rebel movement aborted. In Matthews' glowing, uncritical account. Castro came back to life looking...
...snagged by Gilmore. Ranging further afield, Professors Ingalls and Rowland are waiting to introduce the civilization of India--Asoka to Khrishna Menon--in their Soc Sci 116. If these countries fail to entice, Merle Fainsod, back at his old listening post, continues his love-hate relationship with the Soviet dictatorship (in Gov. 115); and Professor Homans continues his simple love affair with early England, in a whirlwind tour of twelve-and-a-half centuries (!)--the course number...
Cuba's Communist dictatorship branded the fleeing professionals (half of the nation's doctors are gone) as "traitors" and announced that their citizenship was to be revoked. To guard his new Cuba against such treachery, Castro announced that another 1,672 Cuban youths will soon sail to be "educated" behind the Iron Curtain. He also said that he would import 100 Soviet professors to teach Cubans a new language-Russian...
...rich landowner who wishes to become the most powerful economic force in the Aeolian world by recovering a set of deeds from his villa in the old city of Eresos, which has disappeared beneath the sea in an earthquake. He wants to use his power to finance the dictatorship and earth-conquering ambitions of Pit-takos, a general who returns victorious from a siege of Athens. But with the inexorable intrusion of Fate, up from the drowned city come not only the deeds but evidence that Sappho-in an Oedipal twist-is her own husband's daughter. To placate...