Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their isolation, the Indians developed surprisingly few originalities of dogma. But they did intersperse their religious rites with local Hindu practices. Like Hindus, Indian Christian women have always worn large gold earrings in the upper part of their ears. The Christians preserve Hindu-style observances for birth, marriage and death, e.g., when a child is born, its father pours into its mouth three drops of honey in which gold has been dipped...
...Sake? Although the Catholic Church has never quailed from the reality of sin in this world, its movie censors almost ban the depiction of sin from the screen: "The notion, for instance, that sin is always, and very precisely, punished in this life would not appear to be Catholic dogma; yet it is at Catholic insistence that the screen echoes and re-echoes the concept...
What does it all mean? Dali believes that the two deepest preoccupations of mid-century are religious mysticism and atomic physics. His picture combines the two: the Roman Catholic dogma of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption to Heaven as seen by an age newly aware of nuclear physics. But why the rhinoceros horns? Most important, says Catholic Dali. "The rhinoceros horn embodies a mystic feeling similar to that of bullfighting. The bull is a Spanish god who sacrifices himself. Bullfighters are his priests. " Says Dali, who plans to show his Madonna in Manhattan this Christmas season: "I have...
...cities of Islam, time has chipped at the hard pillars of Islamic dogma...
Where Vittorini excels is in matters that are more real than romantic. He brings to life the hostel in which Mainardi and his fellow boarders eat, sleep, gossip, quarrel, and exchange adolescent dogma on everything from Homer to modern politics. He gets down pat the earnest remarks that bubble from sophomoric lips ("I absolutely agree with the ancient Greeks"). He knows how hard it is for any boy to keep a secret, and how the fears and fond hopes of a father and mother cling like leeches to a boy's guilty skin. He knows just how rumor rules...