Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success." A similar "success" is Gore Vidal with his incredibly filthy books. If vulgarity, innuendo, bad language, bad manners and filth are what is necessary to be a success in these United States, then we are certainly headed for either total depravity or a sharp reaction with a dictatorship. At the end of the last century, the U.S. was at the dawn of a golden age in literature and culture. We had Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Bryant and Whitman. Our former greatness now turns around a burlesque show with striptease trimmings...
...real issue, as expressed in the petition, is that "U.S. armed forces, including ROTC graduates, are being used to impose a corrupt dictatorship on the people of South Vietnam, and Harvard students have no more right than Harvard's administration or the American government to support or aid that policy...
...autonomy. At last week's meeting, the Rev. Robert Burns of Atlanta, spokesman for several hundred churches, asked: "Why is all this control from the top necessary? There has never yet been an organization that, given power, didn't use it. This is no less than incipient dictatorship." Another dissident, the Rev. Rex Miller of Jewell, Kans., complained that "at a time when the Roman Catholic Church is loosening the bonds of its hierarchy, we find ourselves putting them...
...scales of the New Left seem almost as much out of balance as those of the Old Left. They have concentrated their attacks for several years on U.S. policy in Viet Nam to the exclusion of criticism of Communist aggressions there and elsewhere, and now that Communist dictatorship has revealed its worst aspects in Czechoslovakia, they cannot manage to criticize that without dragging in the unrelated U.S. policy in Viet...
...army have on occasion turned their weapons against the Chinese. Peking's puppet "Tibet Autonomous Region" collapsed because Tibetan "collaborators," including Mao's own Peking-groomed leader, the Panchen Lama, refused to cooperate with their Chinese overlords any longer. The Chinese had to establish a military dictatorship, and last fall Peking formally abandoned all pretense of Tibetan self-rule...