Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit went to the democratic unions; the Communists could only grudgingly accept the gains on behalf of their own members. Caught up in the Marxist dogma of progressive "pauperization," the Communist unions demand political rather than economic gains, preferring workers to be poor and militant rather than well-paid and independent. Some of the French workers seem to be catching...
...their search for solid grounds, the students have not surrendered their right to criticize, nor do they seem any more susceptible than their parents to blind acceptance of dogma. As a matter of fact, says Kaare Roald Bergethon, dean of the college at Brown University, the students seem so tolerant of the beliefs of others that "if I had seen this same phenomenon in the '30s, I would have thought it was indifference, but today I know it isn't." This tolerance has meant that old gods have not been dethroned; they have merely been demoted. "Science students...
...told her that her duty as a Princess demanded that she should uphold the Archbishop of Canterbury's view? She consulted him; he has made no secret of his dogma. But surely no one except our Parliament and the Governments of other Commonwealth countries has any right to make any statement involving such a choice. The question of succession is not a matter for the royal prerogative (or for the Archbishop) but for the British and the other Common wealth Premiers...
Postwar West Germany has had three singular Socialist mayors who stood as stoutly against Communism as they did against Naziism, stood for alliance with the West against the dogma of their party's national leaders. Berlin's Ernst Reuter, defender of freedom's outpost during airlift days, died two years ago; soon afterward Hamburg's Max Brauer, sometime naturalized citizen of the U.S., was defeated at the polls. That left Wilhelm Kaisen, rebuilder of Bremen. Last week in the city-state of Bremen, smallest of West Germany's states, voters handed Kaisen's Social...
...caught in a pragmatic dilemma, a revolutionary without a blueprint of dogma or a road map of ideology. "We began our revolution with principles, not a program," he said once. "We find that sometimes we have to change our methods. I have read much about socialism, communism, democracy and fascism. Our revolution will not be labeled by any of those names . . . We are not trying to copy anybody else's ideology. We are a country of 22.5 million; 18 million are poor farmers . . . deprived of personal liberty for 5,000 years . . . under the domination of landlords. Only when they...