Word: dogma
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...Fried and curators like Boston's Kenworth Moffett and MOMA'S Rubin-is disposed to think of him as the most important sculptor alive: the sole inheritor to David Smith. This has been announced so often in the past ten years that it has become a pedagogical dogma...
...July 1916 summarizes his lifelong attempt to reconcile Catholicism and modern science: "My mission = very humbly but ceaselessly to take part in sanctifying natural progress, evolution, by revealing ... its sacred end." On the day after Christmas 1917, he wrote: "We are going over a threshold in the history of dogma -we must break a shell, the shell of complacent belief in the possession of a universal explanation of the world...
Berlinguer's theories are rejected by some hard-liners within the party, who were brought up on the classic revolutionary dogma of unending class struggle. Nonetheless, it was virtually certain that the delegates would approve the secretary's platform. The larger question was the reaction of other Italian political parties. Amintore Fanfani, the conservative secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, remains adamantly opposed. "If the Christian Democrats do not want to commit suicide," he said earlier this month, "they must say no to the compromesso storico tomorrow, as well as today." But left-wing Christian Democrats...
...minister of Temple Number 7 in New York City, which dealt with black history and the death of white society, drew everflowing crowds. Malcolm, in his desire for practical strategies for solving problems, introduced the concept of political nationalism into the Muslim movement, he brought the supernatural Muslim dogma about the downfall of white society and the reinstatement of black world dominance down to earth, seeking practical instruments for the liberation of his race that could be employed immediately. He began to realize that the Muslim mysticism which sounded so enchanting in the serenity of the temple was bankrupt...
...with confidence in his own dignity as a black man. But as he became aware of the need for a real strategy for grasping political power, he grew away from the Muslims and became a liability to Elijah Muhammed, who had no intention of actually carrying out his separatist dogma. Malcolm left the Muslims in March of 1964, after being suspended by Muhammed in December of 1963, supposedly for a remark he made about President Kennedy's assassination...