Word: repression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others were arrested for resisting removal of "radical" posters from the lobby entrance of Manhattan's Americana Hotel, where the three-day meeting was held during the holidays. By forcing the arrests, the hotel management fueled the suspicion of some dissidents that M.L.A. directors were colluding to repress them. After that, the business meeting offered them the opportunity to take over. Of 12,000 who registered for the meeting, only 800 appeared for the voting, and the dissidents had a majority on most issues...
...about human nature by assuming that evil is to be found not in man but in social and political institutions, and preaching that they, and indeed man himself, are perfectible through the application of discipline and reason. With the aid of this and other rationalizations, modern man tends to repress the natural knowledge of evil and of his own demonic urges. The result is a search for substitute forms of gratification, which too often lead man not only to fantasies of power but to acts of violence. Through the psychology of self-justification, he compulsively seeks power, coveting...
...pleased when Nixon named his assistants for these groups might have relaxed too quickly. Nixon has suggested that, instead of the active roles in decision-making that McGeorge Bundy and Walt Rostow have played, Kissinger and Moynihan will just be idea men for his Administration. Although no one can repress Moynihan or ignore Kissinger, Nixon's close advisers who will be on the NSC and UAC because of their Cabinet posts will be much more likely than the two academics to influence Nixon's decisions...
...unblinking honesty but loving and prizing it nevertheless. If Solzhenitsyn is against cruelty, hypocrisy and loss of freedom, he is also against the distracting things that freedom-with its consequent financial inequality-engenders. Snobbery, status seeking, selfimportance, the acquisition of consumer goods, materialism -everything, in short, that tends to repress the natural piety...
...have no forgiven sins to repress...