Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measure of a tough dictatorship is that it does not have to appease public opinion. In the early days of his rule, Spain's Francisco Franco showed no sign of caring what people might think about his repressive acts. But today Spain, a U.N. member, is a generation removed from the martial aftermath of its civil war. Last week Franco, looking for scapegoats for the recent Falange-student riots in Madrid (TIME, Feb. 20), found it expedient to appease two important blocs of Spanish opinion...
...biggest news event in Latin America last year made jittery reading for the hemisphere's military strongmen. The crash of Argentina's Juan Peron showed with unnerving clarity how swiftly the most deeply entrenched tyrant can be destroyed by aroused public opinion and disenchanted military leaders. By last week strongman regimes in four other nations were showing signs of strain...
Does debate weaken democracy? On the contrary, argues Author Labin, the rigor of the dogmatic one-opinion police state leads only to rigor mortis: "To believe that music must bring forth Leninistic harmonies, that physics must be de-Semiticized . . . non-Aryans sterilized, the kulaks exterminated: to believe all this, even unanimously-above all unanimously-must lead a people to catastrophe . . . Hamlet is frequently cited as an example of the tragedy caused by thought not followed by action, but, as Bertrand Russell judiciously observes, the totalitarians ought rather to meditate upon the fate of Othello, on the disasters provoked by action...
...President Nancy D. Campbell '56 urged that a Radcliffe statement on the vacation issue coincide with the Harvard Student Council's conclusion since the Administration's final decision will affect both colleges. The Harvard Council will meet tonight to consider the results of last Thursday's student opinion poll, and to take a stand on the proposed calendar revision...
McNiff said that he contemplated little opposition to a requisition for funds. He based this belief on his recent soundings of student opinion which "were so favorable that I am definitely convinced of the usefulness of a record collection...