Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chancellorship. Politics in Bonn are contentious, abrasive and unpredictable. According to one of the opinion polls with which the Germans constantly take their own pulse, ten years ago some 30% of German voters thought power should reside in one man at the top; today only 18% still have such authoritarian longings. West Germany's press and television are strong, free, and outspokenly critical. Hardly anyone advocates extremist solutions for anything. The army bears little resemblance to its goose-stepping ancestor. It is a citizen force, and most of its members are self-conscious in what are often derided...
Another obstacle is the new nations' obsession to get rid of all things associated with colonialism, including democratic customs. One ready substitute is socialism-or the vague authoritarian forms that many backward countries take to be socialism-for it offers a nice, revolutionary, anticolonial posture, and more or less handy blueprints for a centralized economy...
Church-Induced Guilt. Both clergymen and doctors agreed that authoritarian religion can be a major source of neurosis. Salzman noted some symptoms of unhealthy faith that often show up among new adherents to dogmatic churches: "an irrational intensity of belief" in the new doctrine, greater concern for form and theology than for ethical and moral principles, hatred of past beliefs, intolerance of deviation, and the desire for martyrdom to prove devotion. Jesuit Philosopher and Critic William F. Lynch added that neurotic religion frequently shows up among Roman Catholics as a denial of human feelings, a desire to find the will...
...Roman Catholic Church is an authoritarian, hierarchal institution whose Pope and bishops claim to govern by divine right as descendants of Christ's Apostles. This fundamental Catholic concept is now undergoing widespread scrutiny, criticism and questioning, leading to what Father Joseph Gallagher an editor of Baltimore's archdiocesan weekly bluntly calls "a crisis of obedience in the church." What is being questioned is not authority as such, but how it is exercised; not the concept of obedience, but what it means in the modern world of free...
Diem's policies in opposition to the requirements of containment reflected his prejudices as an authoritarian, a militant Catholic and a social conservative. In all of his programs, he was actively supported by the U.S. government. In addition, acting in accordance with American interests, he cut off trade with North Vietnam and subjected South Vietnamese industry to the debilitating effect of the influx of competing American textiles and other products under the commodity import program...