Word: dictatorship
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Stuchka, leading Soviet jurist for several years, thinks that bourgeois norms or legal rules "maintain by organized force the balance of interests of the various classes of society to the advantage of the ruling classes (bourgeois and landlords)." Laws, however, must be retained in the "transitional period of the dictatorship of the proletariat...
...general, courses meet--as at most colleges--three hours a week, morning and afternoon. Some seminars are ball once a week and last for two hours; others three times a week, lasting one hour. In order to add spice to his two-hour session in Democracy and Dictatorship. Professor Sigmund Neumann calls for coffee at "half time," and cups and cauldron are passed around the table...
...very much a gadfly that it's no wonder he was made into a scapegoat. And as played by English Actor Barry Jones, with brilliant ease and assurance, he takes on genuine personality. Raiding history a second time-for a theme-Anderson contrasts democracy in Athens with dictatorship in Sparta, a parallel with modern times that Anderson isn't the first to note. Though the point is well worth making, Socrates has to be lassoed into making it. Socrates' whole life is too exceptional, his whole method too ironic, for him to be a naturally crusading spokesman...
...Professor Amory points out that "the CCA has a great lack of force over its candidates," hardly a trademark of a well-oiled political machine. Nor can it dominate its workers, as they are mostly professional men who will not submit to the dictatorship required by machine politics...
...Manhattan newsmen, General de Lattre read a statement in English: "The war in Indo-China is not a colonial war, it is a war against Red colonialism; as in Korea, it is a war against Communist dictatorship. France has assumed the burden of the war in Indo-China at a tremendous cost to her manpower and financial resources . . . We are fighting on a world battlefield, for liberty and for peace...