Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this month, its members had every reason to suppose they would discuss the state of the world in a rational fashion. The conference organizers, however, had something else in mind. "In the past," said onetime University of Toronto Student David Lloyd-Jones, 24, "the conferences have followed the conventional authoritarian pattern. This year we were resolved to change...
Before World War II the Harvard Administration viewed its relationship with students as custodial. In loco parentis was the rule. The University was the authoritarian father to the students. It protected them, but it demanded obedience. Until the war, the University felt that it could require students to act in certain ways and expect students to respond. Requirements were not strict, but the point of view of the custodian shaped policy...
Student politicians at Harvard have been quick to pick up the rhetoric of "student power" this year; students are always looking for new ideological styles, and it is easy--and sometimes justified--to leap onto anti-authoritarian bandwagons within the University. But to demand student control over all social regulations and discipline, the curriculum, educational innovations, admissions, and the promotion of Faculty, is absolutely pointless. Even if the majority of a students body were to prefer their energetic peers over administrators as the decision-makers, and even if these students were able to devote full time to the University...
Those who admire Jarrell admire his taste, and it is fortunate that he was always right in his criticism, for he wrote with an authoritarian voice that could have sounded smart-aleck were he ever a shade off target. At times he seems to reach out from the page, shake the reader by the collar, and command "Like It!" with dictums like "these lines are so good that even admiration feels like insolence, and one is ashamed of anything one can find to say about them...
...Today's authoritarian regime must cede its place to free political life," he told the foreign correspondents he had summoned. "The country will be exposed to dangers that will undermine and may even destroy everything if freedom is not quickly restored." The junta, he said, "underestimates the Greek people, and especially the youth, if they imagine that it is possible to intimidate them with arrests and sentences." Thus, unintimidated but clearly courting arrest, Kanellopoulos openly challenged the authority of the junta led by Colonel George Papadopoulos...