Word: repressiveness
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...pleased when Nixon named his assistants for these groups might have relaxed too quickly. Nixon has suggested that, instead of the active roles in decision-making that McGeorge Bundy and Walt Rostow have played, Kissinger and Moynihan will just be idea men for his Administration. Although no one can repress Moynihan or ignore Kissinger, Nixon's close advisers who will be on the NSC and UAC because of their Cabinet posts will be much more likely than the two academics to influence Nixon's decisions...
...unblinking honesty but loving and prizing it nevertheless. If Solzhenitsyn is against cruelty, hypocrisy and loss of freedom, he is also against the distracting things that freedom-with its consequent financial inequality-engenders. Snobbery, status seeking, selfimportance, the acquisition of consumer goods, materialism -everything, in short, that tends to repress the natural piety...
...have no forgiven sins to repress...
...violence are self-defeating tactics in seeking university reform. "The power of an impassioned minority to disrupt is great," Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach advised the Stony Brook campus of S.U.N.Y., "but not as great as the power of a determined majority to repress." Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York that "on balance, the world stands to gain from student protest," but he took issue with the New Left creed, which has inspired much of the campus disorder. "It represents an assault on rationality in politics, with...
Checking the psychological back grounds of some 80 cancer patients, Bahnson found that they all had a "poor, ungratifying, mechanical relationship to their parents." Since the parents were unable or unwilling to respond emotionally, he said, their chil dren developed a tendency to repress rather than express their own emotions...