Word: monolithism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millions of Americans the elections that have the greatest impact on their daily lives are the ones that are taking place right around home. The sheriff, the mayor, the Congressman, the Governor often seem so much better positioned to deal effectively with problems than does the monolith that either Jimmy Carter or Gerald Ford will try to grapple with for the next four years. Last week, from posh hotels in Beverly Hills, empty lots in grimy, big-city ghettos, street corners in Brooklyn, and general stores in small towns like Black Betsy, W. Va., the voices of these politicians were...
Perhaps the most terrifying feature of torture in Chile and Iran is its institutionalization, the fact that it has become the almost private domain of huge, semiautonomous police agencies. Once embroiled in the torture monolith, the individual has no appeal, no recourse to the kind of legal authority provided by functioning courts. But whether to an equal or lesser degree, torture is very much a part of life in many other countries as well. Some recent instances...
...comment that "independent Eurocommunism is harder to combat than the old dreaded monolith" [July 12]. My question is why do we have to combat them at all? These European nations are choosing their own form of government now just as the U.S. did 200 years ago. It scares me to think that there are many Americans who still label any non-American form of government as the enemy...
Communists. As for the West, it can take satisfaction from the further Communist splintering-although the new siren song of independent "Eurocommunism" is harder to combat than the old, dreaded monolith. About the Western parties' independence from Moscow there is now little question left; but how "democratic" they really are, or can remain, is the big question...
That fortress has crumbled. Before the Second Vatican Council in 1962, the U.S. Catholic Church had seemed, at least to outsiders, to be a monolith of faith, not only the church's richest province but, arguably, its most pious. When the council ended in 1965, American Catholicism had been swept by a turbulent new mood, a mood of opened windows, tumbled walls, broken chains. It became a painful experience for many, and over the next decade the casualties were heavy: nuns leaving their convents, priests their ministries, lay Catholics simply walking away from worship and belief...