Word: repressedly
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...further feel that the Business School's Riot Plan should be immediately discarded as it sets the stage for a possible duplication of the atrocious brutality which occurred last week. It is quite clear that the Riot Plan is a tool of the Business School administration to repress the Black students' inclination to fully express their indignation at some future decisions...
...what U.S. newspaper could you have read that a Broadway producer plans to include onstage sexual intercourse in a coming play? That a recording of the national anthem played in Chicago Stadium was so bad that 5,700 basketball fans were unable to repress giggles? That some Saigon soothsayers claim that President Diem died because canal diggers had chopped off the head of a dragon guarding his father's grave? The unlikely answer, as many of its more than 1,000,000 readers could verify, is the Wall Street Journal. It included those tidbits in recent front-page "leaders...
...conservative analysis of the community action programs--an analysis which amounts, in reality, to little more than a claim that middle-class outside-agitators have been making trouble by stirring up the normally docile black folk in the ghettos--contains the seeds of an intellectually serviceable ideology of repression. It is but a short step from Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding to the proposition that government should avoid doing anything that might raise expectations, among the poor, while doing as much as possible to repress violence. After all, would not such a policy best serve the immediate need for community and security...
...others were arrested for resisting removal of "radical" posters from the lobby entrance of Manhattan's Americana Hotel, where the three-day meeting was held during the holidays. By forcing the arrests, the hotel management fueled the suspicion of some dissidents that M.L.A. directors were colluding to repress them. After that, the business meeting offered them the opportunity to take over. Of 12,000 who registered for the meeting, only 800 appeared for the voting, and the dissidents had a majority on most issues...
...about human nature by assuming that evil is to be found not in man but in social and political institutions, and preaching that they, and indeed man himself, are perfectible through the application of discipline and reason. With the aid of this and other rationalizations, modern man tends to repress the natural knowledge of evil and of his own demonic urges. The result is a search for substitute forms of gratification, which too often lead man not only to fantasies of power but to acts of violence. Through the psychology of self-justification, he compulsively seeks power, coveting...