Word: repression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are no demonstrations, no underground armies of the night, no threats of violence in the air. Indeed, the nationalist campaign in Scotland is being conducted rather like a civilized divorce proceeding, as befits a people who pride themselves as much on what they repress as what they show. "You can't live day to day with your own rage," says Neil Kay, 25, a graduate student in economics at Stirling University and a Nationalist activist. "If we're going to do anything, we are going to do it by rational and reasonable methods...
...doctor was setting a cast on a broken leg. I watched as he examined the bandaged leg of the girl on the bed in the center of the dimly-lit, sullen room. She was young, about 19, and her pretty face was distorted with the effort to repress the groans that sprang from the pain shooting through...
...Leaks. Mme. Thorn-Petit (whose professional name is a combination of her husband's and her own) has had to learn to repress her reportorial instincts while entertaining official guests. "Obviously, when I'm sitting next to Gromyko, I can't ask him about Soviet Jews," she says. "But when lunch is over, I take off my hostess's hat, pick up my reporter's notebook, go to the press conference and ask him questions." Dignitaries are sometimes startled to see then- dining companion of a few hours earlier interrogating them in public...
Allende, the Crimson would have us believe, was a benevolent man whose sole desire was greater freedom, justice, and prosperity for all Chileans. The violations of individual rights--the seizures of property, the attempts to censor or repress the opposition--have been ignored, or rationalized according to the altruist "morality." The connections between the economic fallacies of socialism and the inflation and shortages that crippled the Chilean economy have been evaded. The Chilean entrepreneurs and professionals who refused to submit to government plunder and enslavement have been vilified. Those who dare to speak out against Allende's tyranny have been...
THIS DEBATE has enlarged in importance as the twentieth-century limped along. Originally, Activist socialists thought revolutionary violence would have to be directed only against the old ruling classes, but the horrible birth of fascism in the 1920s and 30s dramatically enlarged the scope of the potential repression. First in Italy, then in Germany, revolutionary upsurges from the Left led to polarization and a counter-revolutionary mass movement from the Right--a lower middle-class army of storm troopers spouting nationalism, order, and the need to repress the nascent lower orders...