Word: dogma
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...faintness to a ravishing lyricism: because their constituent images are so familiar, clear-cut and even brassy, and yet presented with such rippling and indistinct sweetness, they become a visual equivalent of free-associative dreaming - creative inattention at play. Perhaps only a temperament as rich and unclogged by dogma as Rauschenberg's could have brought off this theatrical play between the "reality" of collage and the vague beauties of atmosphere - or having done that, turned it into such a wry disquisition on the difficulty of seeing anything Clearly...
...authority and its image have lost ground. In 1963, a solid 70% thought that it was "certainly true" that Jesus handed over the leadership of his church to Peter; ten years later that proportion had fallen to 42%. Only 32% of Catholics now subscribe fully to the dogma of papal infallibility. The old fascination with religious vocations has also dimmed. A decade ago, two-thirds of the respondents said that they would be very pleased if their son became a priest. Now only half of those queried feel the same...
...worked for a year on Lincoln Steffens' muckraking Everybody's Magazine. His first book, A Preface to Politics, was written after he served a brief stint as secretary to the Rev. George R. Lunn of Schenectady, N.Y., one of America's first Socialist mayors. But no dogma could contain Lippmann for long. He soon abandoned Socialism-but not all of its causes-and in 1914 became one of the founders of the liberal New Republic...
...court that Isorni had falsified the New Testament. ("Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him," according to John 5:18, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but said that God was his father.) Absolution of the Jewish people would amount to a contradiction of Catholic dogma, De Nantes asserted, concluding: "I have only defended my faith and my church...
...complicating factor in making your peace with Harvard. Living with sexism is not an expectation that many of us bring to freshman registration. A consciousness of it tends to develop only gradually, checked ironically enough by such things as fear of failure, the love-it-or-leave-it dogma, the feeling that a Radcliffe woman should have the inner stuff to take on every aspect of Harvard...