Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called Socialists in this new government, also spent the war in Moscow? How does Professor Matthiessen reconcile the fact that today there is complete suppression of freedom of speech and the press in Czechoslavakia and an upheaval in the educational system to indoctrinate the people in Soviet dogma...
...novel drives this despondent dogma home with such fierce insistence that readers may need a few minutes' reflection to shake off its spell. But in the end, it will be seen that Green has trapped both Kaspan and Meddow in equally futile obsessions with absolutist quests-the one for absolute freedom and the other for absolute love...
Hurling a provocative challenge that touches every citizen at all American colleges and universities, the First Report of the President's Commission on Higher Education has cleared the air of Nineteenth Century dogma by announcing that these institutions "can no longer consider themselves merely the instrument for producing an intellectual elite; they must become the means by which every citizen . . . is enabled and encouraged to carry his education as far as his native capacities permit...
...obviously sympathetic discussion of Berenice's training in Yogi lore reveals that Dreiser has finally found solutions to problems long troubling him. Always religious in nature and temperament, Dreiser devoted a good deal of his life to a search for earthly realization of the values of Christ. Rejecting Church dogma as sterile and oppressive, he ultimately found his personal Christ in Communism. Yet Dreiser's moving desire to explain the life force in other than material terms demanded a religious justification of his views. Not until "The Bulwark" did he discover one. Then, he saw a possible solution...
This report, according to S. Smith Stevens, director of the Psycho-Acoustic Lab, revolutionizes the study of hearing aids, for it attacks the "dogma that hearing aids, like eye glasses, must be fitted to the detailed idiosyncrasies of the individual impairment...