Word: dogma
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...Council of Deans failed to sort out any of the tangles in Harvard's television policy this week. The Administration's caution toward the medium is understandable and so is its unwillingness to set down a dogma on what can and cannot be televised. But by retaining the shaky criterion of "balance," the University has left itself open to a repeat of the flap over January's teach-in along with the inevitable charges of censorship when a particular event is declared to be "unbalanced...
Easy Liaisons. Marriage has never enjoyed much status in Communist dogma. Marxist theory stigmatized the institution as a bourgeois relic whose sinister purpose was the orderly transfer of property from a father to his son. The Soviets scythed the religious significance out of marriage entirely, and in the post-Revolution years they advocated easy liaisons. Many couples married themselves by "solemn agreements," while others, who had tired of their mates, merely called the district party chief and announced that they considered themselves divorced. Tiring came quickly in societies where privacy is almost impossible, diversions drab, and the outlook...
...source save possibly the propaganda machines of the respective parties." The article "occasionally takes note of Nasser's calculating politics," says Peretz, but "settles the burden of tragic events squarely on Israel." All of this fits what Peretz says has become the New Left's Middle East dogma: that "Israel and Israel alone must bear the blame for the past and the responsibility for the future. Not, it should be clear, only for the plight of the Arab refugees, but for the behavior of the Arab regimes as well, and even (how powerful little Israel must have become...
Marxism-Leninism has proved to be both a bar to an efficient economy and a drag on agriculture. Under reforms first proposed by Kharkov University Economist Evsei Liberman, the Russians have chucked much Marxist dogma; there are now incentive bonuses for workers and farmers and greater discretion for factory managers...
...please everybody. For those who think music stopped in 1880, there was Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C. For those who think it began in 1923, the orchestra played the Five Bagatelles for Orchestra by contemporary composer Gunther Schuller. Then, for those who haven't accepted the dogma that the nineteenth century doesn't exist, there was every not of Tschaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, the "Pathetique...