Word: monolithism
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...year 1968 was a watershed for Ulster Catholics, when 50 years of oppression--discrimination in the areas of housing, jobs, education and voting rights, legislated by the Protestant Unionist Party monolith--finally gave rise to the Catholic civil rights movement. Hume emerged quickly as a leading spokesman for this non-violent movement. In the first days of January, 1969, the world looked on in horror as a four day-long civil rights march from Belfast to Derry met a massive Protestant attack that left many of the marchers wounded. As the marchers crossed Burntollet Bridge outside Derry, the Protestant...
Charming Autocrat. The shake-up at Black Rock, as the CBS glass-and-granite monolith on Sixth Avenue is known, caught the broadcast industry by surprise-including senior executives at CBS. "This comes as a complete bolt out of the blue," said a corporate spokesman, struggling to explain the changes. What everyone wanted to know was: Why? Why had Taylor been fired after leading CBS to ever greater financial success and presumably having been selected by Paley to succeed him? Why had Backe, who had no experience in broadcasting-the heart of CBS's operations-been chosen...
...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...