Word: dictatorship
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Both will evaporate in some haste if Fujimoro goes authoritarian. Instead of a dictatorship--even a humane one, if that's what he has in mind--he ought to think in terms of presenting himself as an alternative to Sendero...
...relations with the second Roosevelt. One member thought the most important change since graduation was "the beginning of the destruction of our...Republic by the election of President Roosevelt for a third term, who, in the name and under the pretense of democracy, have changed our democracy into a dictatorship equal to that of Italy...
...classmate, Frederic Hathaway Chase, was "especially impressed by the extent to which the United States has gone towards national socialism," while another, Arthur Hugh Jameson, referring to the Wagner Act, wrote that "a labor dictatorship has been created" and could only hope "that the American people will revert back to the type of their ancestors and recapture that priceless gem of Liberty, which is never appreciated until it is lost...
...criticism that he has spent too much time on foreign affairs, Bush has virtually ignored the issue. In pleading poverty ("There isn't a lot of money around . . . I don't have a blank check") and refusing to heed Richard Nixon's warnings about chaos and a return to dictatorship in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Bush has offered Clinton a window of opportunity. (If it closes, if Bush jumps out with his own ideas for C.I.S. assistance before Clinton can, the candidate will shift his emphasis...
...have a hard time accepting the notion that history is not a steady ascent, that it can move us from high civilization to barbarism, from democracy to dictatorship, from licentiousness to prudery -- and back. During the past hundred years, let alone the past thousand, we have made almost unbelievable material and social progress; what has not changed is the nature of humanity and our never ending challenge: to keep working, to keep mending, to keep building. It has been suggested that Sisyphus is the myth most typical of the human condition. A better choice might be Faust, who, after...