Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes slightly authoritarian, Compton's scolds readers in an article on the arts: "The person who says he dislikes classical music is condemning himself, not music...
...overthrow. They had a Constitution (modeled on that of the United States), they had an elected legislative body, they had a Cabinet of responsible ministers, they had a Supreme Court, they had an elected President. Even though the minds of the people had been attuned for generations to authoritarian rule, they were beginning to learn the rudiments of self-government through institutions developed during Diem's eight years as constitutional President...
...group gathers in seclusion under the guidance of a leader who refuses to give leadership in the expected sense. There are no rules of procedure, no agenda. In this planned vacuum, minus labels, titles and props, each member demonstrates his "life style" simply by talking. The authoritarian sounds bossy, the abdicator yields in arguments, the critic criticizes, and it is all supposedly plain-often painfully plain to the subject himself-when the others' observations of him begin to "feed back." If things go well, a kind of agape results. If not, the practice can be dangerous: nervous breakdowns have...
...spent 14 months in a dusty internment camp at Koffiefontein in the Orange Free State. So extremist were his ideas that not even the Nationalists could stomach them at first. In 1948, the party turned down his application for membership on the ground that he "believed in the authoritarian state principle and advocated the destruction of parties...
...said to have involved his mother. Yet it wasn't his mother who trained him to handle guns as soon as he was old enough to hold them; it wasn't his mother who beat his father; it wasn't his mother who is described as authoritarian; it wasn't his mother he hated with passion...