Word: dictatorship
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Zinn said, "We have a general problem of dictatorship here." Zinn said faculty and students were ignored or intimidated by the administration, and added, "the sense of outrage is widespread...
...Coup, the product of this new perspective, is quite simply a marvelous book. The tale of a coup in the mythical sub-Saharan dictatorship of Kush--"a constitutional monarchy with the constitution suspended and the monarch deposed"--becomes for Updike the vehicle of a biting, driving wit, a brilliant farce that together lambastes America, the Soviet Union, radicals, bureaucrats, poets, capitalists and, of course, lovers. Being Updike, the author retains enough of his obsession with bedroom mores and manners to fill the book with ruminations of love and lust, the foibles of marriage and the freedom of adultery--but happily...
...Because of the chaos, the nation is headed for a new type of dictatorship," Bakhtiar said in a televised address last night...
...China's future: In our country, as counterrevolution weakens, dictatorship will have to be pared away and democracy broadened...
...dead of night at my house." Then she clambered onto a table and waited for the police. Before they led Mrs. Gandhi off to Delhi's Tihar jail, where thousands of her political opponents were locked up during her 21-month emergency dictatorship, she recited a version of a British show tune: "Wish me luck as you bid me goodbye/ With a cheer, not a tear in your eye/ Give me a smile I can keep all the while I am away...