Word: nonauthoritarian
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...DEMOCRACY The victors of the cold war will judge your case, and they are disposed to anoint only noncommunist, nonauthoritarian believers in multiparty elections and the free market. That pretty much queers the prospects of religious-based Chechnya and most African separatists. The Kosovars' lack of civil institutions and political structures makes them a premature candidate...
...unpacked when they arrived. Their load included a politics of natural right, derived from English Whigs; Protestant churches, mostly Bible reading and "low" in ritual and theology; and a near religious belief in the virtues of working hard and getting rich. These traits reinforced one another: pulpits proliferated under nonauthoritarian government, and the work ethic flourished under the stimulus of earnest preachment...
...deals with politics more obliquely. Where Kramer screams in outrage at the madness of promiscuity, Hoffman laughs at the self-delusion and hypocrisy of it. His play, told in montage style, juxtaposes reveries by the ingratiating central couple--for example, about the pleasures of "nondirective, noncommitted, nonauthoritarian" sex--with satiric snippets depicting how that rhetoric translates into the raunch and squalor of an anonymous sexual underworld. The supporting cast all play multiple roles; Ken Kliban and Lily Knight are especially effective as an AIDS victim's estranged straight brother and tolerant chum. Hoffman has written rich, lyric dialogue...
...said that the desire to apply his "nonauthoritarian educational philosophy" to football led him to turn down a number of assistant coaching offers, including a position at the University of Rochester...
...society in which marriage and the family will be abolished, along with all involuntary education. Children, if conceived at all, will be incubated outside the body of the mother. Polarized sex roles will disappear in favor of polymorphous perversity practiced in new social units called "households," loosely linked, nonauthoritarian collections of people, including small children, who contract to live together for periods of seven to ten years, but are free to do exactly what they want. Perhaps the author should visit the United Nations...