Word: dictatorship
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...grandmothers in sneakers, stocky shopkeepers and children in starched frocks join hands. A brass band brays for a slow-motion minuet. Toes out! Toes in! Deliberately, then merrily, 500 people count steps. The sardanas are courtly affairs, far removed from the stomping passion of Spanish flamenco. Under the Franco dictatorship, the dances were banned as subversive evidence of Catalan nationalism. But now, on Sunday afternoons, they are as ubiquitous as barbershop quartets at Iowa county fairs. "They're a sign of our identity," says Joan Anglada, a furniture salesman, pausing for breath...
...running for office to eliminate the effects of the dictatorship," the candidate explains. "The land must be given back to you." It is the first time since 1946 that anyone has campaigned for public office in Floresti (pop. 2,000), 340 km northwest of Bucharest, where most of the villagers are employed on a nearby state-owned farming cooperative. But with multiparty elections scheduled for this Sunday and more than 80 political parties in the race, the farm workers are curious about both the process and the promises...
...achievement and maintenance of the dictatorship of the proletariat is impossible without a party which is strong by reason of its iron discipline. But iron discipline in the Party is inconceivable without unity of will, without complete and absolute unity of action on the part of all members of the Party. This does not mean, of course, that the possibility of conflicts of opinion is thereby precluded....But after a conflict of opinion has been closed, after criticism has been exhausted and a decision arrived at, unity of will and unity of action of all Party members are the necessary...
...also, in spurts, funny), provoked the condemnation of gay spokesmen with his jokes about AIDS. On his new album, Leader of the Banned, Kinison declares that his motto is "family entertainment," then proceeds to put the knock on gays, Dr. Ruth, Jerry Lewis' "kids" and the worldwide female dictatorship. Family entertainment? Right: the Manson family...
...success of perestroika. This is a realistic policy. Sometimes people / say -- I always do -- that there is no alternative to perestroika. That is not completely true. There is an alternative. If perestroika fails, then we will see a dictator come to power. And everyone knows what a dictatorship means. Without overstating the case, it is in the interest of our entire human civilization for perestroika, democratization and the renewal of our country to succeed. I think the U.S. Administration understands this...