Word: repressive
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...certainly not the traditional idea. The creators of classic Utopias were not much interested in liberating the personality or reaching the inner man. They wanted to constrain the inner man with his ungovernable impulses. They wanted-let us admit it-to repress the personality. "The tyrant of individualism has forever been put down," boasted a 19th century Utopia called The Crystal Button. In a 1903 Utopian novel, Limanora, everyone is deliberately made to work too hard to have time to think about himself or his desires. Those who persist in the glorification of sensory pleasures are exiled to an island...
...revolutionary priest." Radical Tom Hayden explains-and explains away -Kennedy's admiration for Che Guevara: "Bobby Kennedy was attracted to strong human beings and unorthodox people, and he had a romantic feeling toward guerrillas and people who struggle; but he was a very shrewd politician, and careful to repress those romantic instincts...
...surely have the wrong ideas about Widerberg. Elvira Madigan has been the only one of his six features to receive wide distribution here, and its popularity was for all the wrong, reactionary reasons. (Fragile and Iyrical," the critics said.) The film's nihilistic undercurrents are easy (and desirable) to repress, and all the rest is saccharine and tragic, incredibly cathartic, and sets up pure escapism as an ideal. Widerberg, however, in fact emerged in Sweden of the early '60's as a leader of young directors agitating against escapist cinema, for much needed social analysis...
...have engaged in political actions like Cheney's are made to face the possibility of prosecution at any time. As these students must be aware, this possibility is greater if they engage in further political actions of the same sort. What Harvard has done constitutes and attempt to repress activists and intimidate others from like actions. We oppose this repression...
...fedayeen, non-Palestinian Jordanians are not bent on overthrowing Hussein, but the King's attempts to repress the guerrillas have turned many of that group against him. Even neutral Jordanians were repelled by the brutality of Hussein's army. In Amman, Bedouin soldiers slew wounded guerrillas, some while they lay helpless on stretchers. Others looted stores and houses and raped women at gunpoint. Onlookers insist that these were not Jordanian at all, but the Bedouin mercenaries from Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia who constitute a third of Hussein's army. "These foreign legionnaires didn't look...