Word: repressions
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Irreverent. The caustic Communist dismissal of his long months of backstage diplomacy could not quite repress the resilient spirits of Henry Kissinger. Basking once again in the kind of international attention that soars beyond an academician's dreams, Kissinger charmed a core of crusty newsmen at a Washington Press Club dinner. Who else but Kissinger would be so irreverent as to refer to one of Nixon's most embarrassing moments? "It is true that I have been getting kicked around lately," Kissinger said in apparent reference to the Anderson papers. "And it is natural that some of you will wonder...
...Harvard's apparent role in directing the war an innocent string of striking coincidences, or does Harvard actively prevent potential activists and resisters like Ellsberg from stepping out of the web of power? Does Harvard suppress confession? Does Harvard ignore sacrifice? Does Harvard repress initiative? What could resistance mean in the context of Harvard? Why does alienation, rather than activism, dominate the life of this university...
Given this context, one must question Herrnstein's motives for publishing his article in as widely-read a magazine as the Atlantic. He is undoubtedly aware that his ideas will be used by bigots who desire to repress blacks collectively. Worse, the article will probably provide educational policy makers with an excuse to offer an even shoddier product to blacks and Chicanos than they do now. Offering the article to the general public at this particular time seems almost intentionally designed to assist both processes...
...life he is a frightened, self-seeking, self-deceiving fumbler. The book's most moving passages are those in which Vercors shows how his hero's fear of love makes him lose the girl he should have married, how his habit of self-ignorance allows him to repress his grief, how his hypocrisy and weakness eventually poison his marriage and destroy his closest friendship...
...newspapers saw a higher morality in exposing the secret history of decisions that had led to a dangerously unpopular public policy. Appeal to a higher morality by an individual or an organization is often necessary?and always dangerous. No government of law can passively permit it?or simply repress it. Therein lies the Administration's dilemma. There may be too many Daniel Ellsbergs in the U.S. now for a President to ignore their will...