Word: etat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commentary, and cultural racism, which results in a meaningless comic portrait of a genocidal dictator. A Swiss director, Barbet Schroeder, took a crew to Uganda in 1974, after having received express permission to do a film portrait of the Ugandan President, who had assumed power in a coup d'etat...
That formulation was crucial; it signified at least the intellectual end of the era epitomized by King Louis XIV of France: "L'etat, c'est moi." Locke carried Tyrrell's idea much farther in his Two Treatises of Government, written partly as a refutation of Filmer and published just after the revolution in 1688. In the Second Treatise, Locke based all political theory upon a rationally ordered universe. The thought was not impiously secular but in fact was the re-verse?a conception of human order deriving entirely from the infinite and infinitely discoverable mind of God. Yet, in effect...
...Your story quotes me as saying that in Chile "an over-extension of democracy led to a coup d'etat which has restored political stability." In fact, I never referred to the current political situation in Chile as stable; and I said it was the extension of political participation (not democracy) in the 1960s, which overwhelmed Chilean democratic political institutions and created the polarization leading first to Allende and then to the coup...
Speaking at North House, Huntington said there was a worldwide pattern towards a general extension of democracy, which had resulted in non-democratic ends. He cited the experience of Chile, where, Huntington said, "an over-extension of democracy led to a coup d'etat which has restored political stability...
...first Arab leader to speak English with a German accent. Did you meet Mr. Sisco [Under Secretary Joseph J. Sisco, who is about to resign]? I had to bring him with me -if I left him in Washington he might mount a coup d'etat.' Assad laughed. Kissinger assumed that the Syrians, like other Arabs, were intrigued by his success with women, so he talked about women and repeated some lecherous pleasantries...