Word: repression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Williams attacked the science center as a bastion of the scientific technology which seeks to control and repress "basic human social and political rights." The slogan: Polaroid + ID equals Fascism was pinted on the walls of the center...
...produced Shaft films are illustrative. John Shaft, a black private detective who enforces the laws that repress much of the black community, is rewarded for his efforts with a fabulous penthouse, beautiful women, and lots of money. Serious black activists who are desperately trying to help the community, however, are portrayed as brash and fumbling idiots who live in coldwater walk-up tenements. The message is clear: be a self-centered hustler and maybe one day you can move to Park Avenue: deal seriously with the struggle for liberation and you are condemned to the ghetto...
...chairman of a billion-dollar insurance company shouts "Denenberg!" whenever he misses a putt on the golf course because that is the nastiest oath he knows. Other insurance leaders as well as some hospital administrators, doctors, trial lawyers and auto-company executives can barely repress their anger whenever they hear the name. Of all the meddling bureaucrats and thorn-in-the-side consumer advocates who afflict big business, none is so infuriating as Herbert Sidney Denenberg, the insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania...
...future of the appeal process remains unclear. Hartman may balk at having his case heard by the present committee and opt for legal proceedings immediately. On the other hand, he may repress his objections and elect to wait until the committee reports before possibly going to the courts...
Irreverent. The caustic Communist dismissal of his long months of backstage diplomacy could not quite repress the resilient spirits of Henry Kissinger. Basking once again in the kind of international attention that soars beyond an academician's dreams, Kissinger charmed a core of crusty newsmen at a Washington Press Club dinner. Who else but Kissinger would be so irreverent as to refer to one of Nixon's most embarrassing moments? "It is true that I have been getting kicked around lately," Kissinger said in apparent reference to the Anderson papers. "And it is natural that some of you will wonder...