Word: repressions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matters little to me when seeking to represent their views on the council floor. And even though Mr. Orenstein seemingly does not wish for me to do so, I will continually seek to represent all students as equal members of this community. If my failure to prejudge, discriminate, and repress the views and the wishes of those in minority groups is in some way offensive to him, I offer no apology...
Speaking to the faculty, alumni and student group before the signature presentation, Professor of the History of Science Everett Mendelsohn said, "Those who govern Harvard should take their responsibility seriously. They ought not repress the voice of those who teach and learn here...
...lucky few who actually are able to find their true sexuality--and not repress it, like most heterosexuals--there are a range of avenues at Harvard for expressing their new sexual identity. Traditionally, one of the most popular means of expressing one's sexual identity is to find a girl-friend or boyfriend, hard though this has always been for Harvard students...
...mentioning his liaisons to a policeman while reporting a burglary at his home, he abruptly found himself transformed from victim to accused criminal. In a Britain that had not yet legalized homosexual relations between consenting adults, the resulting trial cost him his reputation, his work, even his masculinity: to repress Turing's sexual urges, a judge ordered him treated with female hormones. He was subsisting on university research in 1954 when, in a bizarre echo of a favorite movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he killed himself by eating an apple soaked with cyanide...
centralization of power, to "maintain the control over violence that is essential to carry through major reforms." (p. 20) Huntington argued that some form of "enlightened despotism" might help reduce white opposition to change in South Africa, but even more firmly, he suggested the government should repress three types of violence: revolutionary, spontaneous and backlash. "No reform occurs without violence...Within limits reform and repression may proceed hand-in hand...The government that is too weak to monopolize counter-revolutionary repression is also too weak to inaugurate counter-revolutionary reform...