Word: repression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final stroke. It sounds feasible that Raskind had been able to live with the facts of his double life for 41 years but just got to the point where he needed a change. But some details don't fit; for instance, that "Dick" seems to have able to repress his feminine side enough to have a relationship with a woman during middle age. The reader suspects that Raskind, dissatisfied with his previous relationship thought Richards might have better luck
...actions of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government. The war in Lebanon, and Begin's brusque rejection of President Reagan's peace plan for the Middle East, have shattered a tradition that was already fraying: namely, that in times of crisis American Jews should repress any qualms they might have about the policies of an Israeli government. More Jewish Americans are questioning those policies, and more publicly, than ever before...
Says M.I.T. Sociology Professor Sherry Turkle, an expert on the psychological impact of computer games: "The training could go two ways. It could have a numbing effect, making nuclear war more linkable, or it could heighten the revulsion. The computer is confronting us with something we tend to repress: the brute tact that we are playing with the survival of the planet...
...various liberal and humanitarian causes over the years, he became a convert to conservatism and founded his own rightist think tank, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in 1976. He advocates making a distinction between "authoritarian" governments of the right (for example, South Africa, South Korea, Chile), which repress dissent, and putatively worse "totalitarian" governments of the left (notably the Soviet Union), which deny both political and economic freedom. Lefever had written that human rights questions should not interfere with U.S. alliances. In confirmation hearings he refused to criticize specific human rights violations by allies, and seemed to equate protecting...
...villains may win out, at least for the time being. Soviet tanks are poised on the country's frontiers, Russian propaganda is increasingly critical of the independent Polish union Solidarity, and almost every other sign points to the possibility of an invasion or a quieter "police action" to repress dissent in Poland. And that presents a difficult problem for those in the West who have watched the Poles with such hope...