Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disillusioned Socialist. Revel's trenchant attack on Communism, although hardly original, comes at a critical moment for French leftists. Long slavishly subservient to Moscow dogma, the Communist Party in France has lately taken a cue from the heartening electoral successes of Italy's Communists (TIME, June 30). The Italian party has assumed impeccable democratic manners, has pledged to abide by parliamentary democracy and, if in power, to permit opposition, a free press and even a mixed economy. Striving to shed his party's doctrinaire image, French Communist Chief Georges Marchais went so far as to state...
What contradictions exist in church doctrine are compounded in the unlikely meeting of Mormonism and Harvard. In this analytical and often cynical community, the spirituality of Mormons and their peculiar religious dogma stand out like saffron-robed Krishna followers in a crowd of Unification Church members. Just as the notion of an inconspicuous 19th-century American starting a religion heavily based on a pair of long-lost golden tablets brings snickers here, so the spirituality of Mormonism clashes with the pre-professionalism that prevails here. While Mormons are certainly not opponents of the return to academics, they do not spend...
Under the tolerant eye of the now retiring Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, Dutch Catholics were long in the forefront of innovation. Generally asserting autonomy vis-à-vis Rome, in 1966 the Dutch church issued a celebrated "New Catechism," that invited reinterpretation of traditional dogma. In 1970 its national Pastoral Council went so far as to endorse the idea of women priests and an end to the celibacy rule. In response, Pope Paul named hard-line conservatives Adrianus Simonis and Johannes Gijsen to two of the seven Netherlands bishoprics. The liberals exploded in extraordinary public wrath over both choices and there...
...Russian-born geneticist whose work at U.S. universities and research institutes earned world acclaim; of a heart attack; in Davis, Calif. Dobzhansky, who came to the U.S. as a student and chose to remain when the spurious environmental doctrines of Stalin's pet geneticist, T.D. Lysenko, became Communist dogma, was best known for works such as Genetic Diversity and Human Equality and Heredity and the Nature...
...Boorstin, recently confirmed as the new Librarian of Congress, commented that "few historians have spent themselves so unstintingly or so effectively in the effort to transcend the provincialism of their time and place." Toynbee felt that there was a kind of intellectual provincialism, too, in what he called "the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another,' " for he himself had "a lifetime conviction that human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole...