Word: repressiveness
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...past dozen years, American sculpture has become more and more ephemeral and mass-denying. It turned into a matter of open steel constructions, more air than metal; painted surfaces that repress one's sense of material; cool machine-made boxes, metal tiles or bricks laid flat on the floor, anodized glass cubes and characterless Formica skins. To the extent that sculpture can get away from its primordial conditions of weight, thickness, opacity and immobility, it did so in the '60s, and often with an annoyingly academic self-righteousness. Nevertheless, a few of the best sculptors of the time...
Again and again, throughout the sixties and early seventies, we have seen the police and the military, the right arm of the White power structure in America, step in to brutally repress any organized efforts of black students to make black colleges accountable to their needs and the needs of the black community. We would do well to remember Jackson State, Texas Southern, South Carolina State, Southern, et. al., because they carry a message for us: to administrators and officials, black or white, who see their vested interest as being in the continued propagation of the ideologies of racism...
Muhammad Ali's eighth round knockout last week of George Foreman was more than a triumph over the former heavyweight champion. It was also a whuppin' of the powers of sports that stripped Ali of his title to repress his conclusions about the world in which sports go on. And it was an especially decisive whuppin' of the U.S. government that wanted him to fight not other boxers, but Vietnamese rebels with whom--as Ali recognized--Americans should have no quarrel...
...desire were to suppress Griffith's movie or ideas, they couldn't. It's silly to identify their action with official strong-arm tactics, or with other potentially dangerous attempts at dictatorial rule, because the contexts of the attempts are too different. Governments can mobilize enormous institutional force to repress dissent. Saturday night's protesters had comparatively minuscule power--although it may have seemed great for the moment, and they should have taken that into account in planning a disciplined and clearly nonviolent obstruction. And what power they had was directed at a generally prevailing orthodoxy...
...uniquely good position to further détente. No one can challenge his devotion to the advancement of Russian interests. He was the one who ordered the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, demanded ideological purity in Eastern Europe with the "Brezhnev Doctrine," and started the current drive to repress dissent at home (see box page 26). "He is not making Khrushchev's mistake," says Carl Linden, a leading Soviet affairs expert at George Washington University. "Khrushchev tried to couple relaxation abroad with relaxation at home, while Brezhnev has kept the two separate. He realizes there is a fundamental antagonism between...