Word: geisel
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...Geisel himself called the decompression "relative democracy." In the words of a Brazilian political scientist, the 'distensao' was an effort to "perfect the institutionalization of the national security state and provide for more flexible political representation so as to decrease the levels of dissent and tension that had built up pressure." Maria Helena Moreira Alves, State and Opposition in Military Brazil (Austin: University of Texas Press...
...since neither of these preconditions--cooperation or control--existed in South Africa in 1981, most of Huntington's paper focused on the process through which the basis for such an 'elite conspiracy' could be laid, a process he chose to call "reform." Based on the model of Brazilian President Geisel's "decompression", or "liberalization", Huntington recommended that the South African government pay attention to six factors. In order to wage a "two-front war against both stand-patters and revolutionaries" (p. 16), he said, reformers require...
...much fundamental change would these new political institutions involve? Focusing on process rather than result, Huntington dodged the issue; but he acknowledged that Geisel's "decompression" in the mid-'70s did not lead to real democratization in Brazil (p. 16). Brazilians, incidentally, tend to be harsher on Geisel, under whom the Brazilian military continued its dictatorial control behind a thin facade of indirect elections...
...otherworldly animals pop up in the most amazing places, so it was no surprise that Dr. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodor Geisel, should find his most famous fictional feline in front of the San Diego Museum of Art, about to be hoisted onto the roof. The 22-ft.-tall replica of the Cat in the Hat went on display last week to announce the opening of "Dr. Seuss from Then to Now," a retrospective of his nearly 60-year career that will travel over the next two years to Pittsburgh, New York City, Baltimore and New Orleans. Geisel, 82, whose latest best...
...they only want the meat of it." If the idea of a Seuss book being barren seems surprising, imagine the reaction of the occasional young visitor bold enough to call on the Wizard of Whimsy. "They expect me to be a cow with a nose that lights up," says Geisel with a shrug. "I'm too square...