Word: dogma
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Famed Viennese Conductor Erich Kleiber, 64, again learned that totalitarians always prostitute art to political dogma, again quit his job as director of the (East) Berlin State Opera (he first resigned in 1935, in protest against the Nazis), fled with his California-born wife Ruth to West Germany. Immediate reason for his break with the Reds: the inscription across the facade of the opera building, "King Frederick [in dedication to] Apollo and the Muses," had arbitrarily been ordered removed...
Destroying Negative. Unfortunately, says Kirk, the fear of any dogma has led to a completely erroneous definition of academic freedom. Such "doctrinaire liberals" as Historian Henry Steele Commager and President Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence "think of the Academy as a place where professors, like the Sophists, talk perpetually of the impossibility of knowing anything with certitude, and the necessity for considering every point of view, and the need for being ever so liberal. These latter gentlemen put me in mind of Bacon's famous line: 'What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...
...last night's uninterrupted dress rehearsal, there was only one high point, one performer, one reason for watching Candida: that was Miss Cass. She was always Shaw's wise, strong woman, speaking the celebrated dogma with sweetness and humor. Particularly in the mashy last act is she at top form, supplying the pace which other performers and director David Green neglected. She seemed to have thought about her lines and her part, weighing the author's intent and then blending them into a spirit and charm which is irresistible...
...teachings, or, to stand up for what one believes from the Scriptures and face excommunication from the Church of Rome. I would have a great deal of respect for Dubois had he done one of two things: truly believed in his heart and preached the verity of all dogma and actions of the Church of Rome, or, once stating his opposition, to have stuck to his points. As the case of the unfrocked priest, I feel very sorry for him as he has been unable to find true comfort in Christ...
Freudian Doubts. How big is Jung's influence today? The Freudians, confident that they are the possessors of revealed psychiatric truth, have crusaded for their own dogma...