Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immediately after his election, rumors filled Caracas of an impending army coup to restore the defeated Acción Democrática party to power. Instead, Caldera has asserted control over the army. He appointed new and loyal commanders to key units, and boldly passed over senior pro-Acción officers to pick his Defense Minister. When the army's top general, Pablo Antonio Flores, openly grumbled, Caldera abruptly removed him from active service and now plans to send him into what Latin Americans call "golden exile" as ambassador to a Central American country...
...that Cornell had averted bloodshed. Many students envisioned a new era of racial good feeling. Robert W. Purcell, chairman of the board of trustees, said the "silent center" had spoken, and he insisted that "Cornell has come through without danger and strengthened." Yet disturbing questions remain: If radical student power dominates a university, what happens to professors who disagree with it? More broadly, if a university is threatened with disorder, how far can it compromise before it loses all integrity? Is Cornell a symbol of racial progress or a disaster for American universities...
...year, Oberdorfer, 37, writes a perceptive and critical weekly column. He also covers breaking news. He was one of the first reporters to convey Nixon's style of operation, probe the efforts to change Spiro Agnew's image and note Senator Strom Thurmond's lack of power in the new Administration. A somewhat stuffy writer, Oberdorfer has nevertheless conveyed his impatience with the slow pace of Government under Nixon. As the headline on one of his columns gibed, he also feels that "Nixon's Change in Direction Is Not Necessarily Forward...
...economy more and more depends on it-just as, in Western countries, politics and the economy depend more and more on professional knowledge. If anything, Djilas suggests, Communism will disappear with less resistance than anybody could have foreseen. Earlier dominant classes-whether feudal lords or capitalists-cemented their power with durable institutions that reflected economic realities. Relying on power alone, the Communists, says Djilas, have notably failed to develop stable institutions. When their power vanishes, so will all their works...
...pressed to death beneath large rocks for refusing to plead. The tradition holds that the executions were the result of a repressive fanaticism in the Puritan character. Underlying this modern attitude toward the Salem trials is a smug belief that since we do not now believe in the power of witchcraft, the existence of witchcraft is a delusion, as impossible and unscientific, say, as the Ptolemaic notion that the sun revolved around the earth...