Word: dogma
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...Swiss theologian who proselytized for the early 20th century Protestant movement against the attenuating liberalism of the day, and argued for a return to a systematic theology that accepted the Bible as the only source of divine revelation; following a stroke; in Zurich. The articulate Brunner carried the dogma of neo-orthodoxy to Protestant seminaries around the world, was often compared to his fellow countryman Karl Earth, who espoused the same biblicism, but the two sometimes disagreed on the application of Christian principles to life...
...from the top-cop echelon. Another related controversy concerned the John Birch Society. At his first press conference, Leary said that policemen could be Birchers if membership did not conflict with their duties. This horrified the liberal Lindsay, whereupon Leary proclaimed that he was "repelled and nauseated" by Birch dogma and would forbid police membership in the society if he had the legal authority. Lindsay strongly defended himself. "It is sheer insanity," he said, "to insist that I as mayor do not have the obligation to see that any commissioner staffs his department with the best people...
...majority of the Soviet population favors birth control, either through conventional techniques or abortion. Heer believes the government legalized abortions in 1955 only because doctors were already handling a great many illegal abortions and because the flaunting of the law threatened Party morale. No matter what the party dogma says, Heer sees a definite change in the Soviet leadership's attitude toward population limitation: "It appears that they've decided it's just too expensive to raise their birth rate...
...account, he was just another warhawk when he took a senatorial excursion to South Vietnam, where--by simply keeping his eyes open--he found out things which completely contradicted officials dogma. Yet there is something in Young's attitude that makes the quick-change act incredibly hard to swallow. He is skeptical not only about the administration's Vietnam policy, but about the administration, period. And if, like certain other Senate liberals, Young avoids attacking the President directly, he more than makes up for it in his comments on the Secretary of State...
...report also offers a careful year-by-year and state-by-state summary of the party's development in the South, and concludes with several imaginative proposals for governmental action which, in accordance with Republican dogma, would be at the state level. The suggestions include vocational schools and state minimum wage laws for agricultural workers, a shifting of the tax burden from lower-income groups to the region's new industries, and state civil rights laws attacking job discrimination...