Word: authoritarianism
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Times have changed. When gruff, penetrating Herr Wolff barked, "You are the Fascist regime, we a democracy!", Il Duce bridled, made an answer of utmost significance : "I am a democrat [pause] that is, an authoritarian democrat."* As though he found his new-coined phrase especially apt, Il Duce reintroduced it during the argument again and again. "We are creating moral order, not police order," he added earnestly. "We are not reactionaries: quite the contrary." A little plaintively, knowing well that he will always be considered ruthless, the Dictator spoke at last of his penal islands (notorious as "Devil...
...cathedral is, there is a dean. Since deans and bishops must see each other constantly to do ghostly and secular business together, it is well that they should dwell together in charity. Not always is this the case. Last winter Manhattan's Bishop William Thomas Manning, high-church authoritarian, fell out with Dean Howard Chandler Robbins, broad-church independent (TIME, Jan. 14). Said Dean Robbins: "There is a fundamental difference of opinion as to the rights of the dean." Dean Robbins resigned, became professor of pastoral theology at General Theological Seminary, Manhattan, principal training school of Episcopal deacons...
...authoritarian hierarchy of social groups, which is thus made part of the Italian governmental machinery, is often decried as syndicalism. Whether this can be maintained when the corporations are made into creatures of the central political authorities (since they depend upon these authorities for recognition) is doubtful to me. It might with more justification be maintained that they bring about a rigid bureaucratization of the social strata, which elsewhere are left more or less to their own council and initiative. To some extent this tendency to governmentalize the 'interest groups' is to be found in all modern states. But what...
...author, who is a Roman Catholic as well as an authoritarian, emphasizes a religious contrast, presented in the fact that while any given section of Europe is either predominantly Catholic or predominantly Protestant, the U.S. contains both types of religion together. In literature we are different, in language we are dividing from the English; and in our foreign relations we have reached the point where it is necessary for us to keep away from Europe and for Europe to keep away from us if disaster is to be avoided...