Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of his Senate staffers one day, "that I don't know how to hang on to them." It was a revealing comment. for Jesse Helms surely will not hold back. He has built his career on drawing the line, charging forward, preaching the ruthless application of conservative dogma. That is how he got to be the head of Jesse's army. And that is how he finally got invited to the dance...
...Henry Adams, the author illuminates a man who "asked the overwhelming question of his century and ours: whether the world is spinning into chaos, or, after a long penance, tapping the divine. That question, which now as then elicits all the varying strategies of self-defense--embarrassment, indifference, and dogma--has rarely been asked with greater dignity." Channing was not a tub-thumping, rabble-rousing patriot, nor is Delbanco a wide-eyed and vociferous liberal. Like his subject, he asks what it means to be an American, and successfully depicts the miracles and misfortunes...
...science teachers now must teach creationism as well as evolution, which version of creationist dogma do they offer -Christian, Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim or polytheism? Religion-based versions of creation should be given in a religion course, not in a science class...
...several scenes, points the direction to Wall Street as well as to the cafeteria. One of the show's subplots involves the quarrels between the aspiring lady capitalist of the 1980s and her boyfriend, a self-styled Che Guevara--ever-ready to spout bleeding heart liberalism and Marxist structuralist dogma...
Anthropological dogma holds that modern man, ancestor of all people living today, appeared rather suddenly in Europe 35,000 years ago, spread south ward into Africa and eastward into Asia, and finally, no more than 12,000 years ago, crossed the Bering land bridge to America. Now an anthropological heretic offers another theory. Modern man, says Jeffrey Goodman, has actually been in America for at least 50,000 years. He crossed the Bering bridge the other way, bringing his culture to Europe and Asia...