Word: dogma
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...Within the Soviet people and even inside the Communist dogma there are, however, seeds of freedom, and these, if not destroyed by wars or economic plights, might possibly sprout some day into genuine democracy...
...Generally, according to a large body of dogma bordering on idolatry, the flag must be lowered at sundown. But there are many exceptions. It may be displayed after dark for "patriotic effect." It is flown at night from forts and naval vessels which are engaged with an enemy, and also over the east and west fronts of the Capitol Building in Washington, over the grave of Francis Scott Key in Frederick, Md., and over the war memorial at Worcester, Mass., built as an architectural dramatization of the colors...
President Conant expressed his confidence that future humanities professors will be able to bring about the necessary shift of emphasis in arts and letters from the more memorization of "the current gilded dogma" to a relation of the humanities "to the personal problems of man and the welfare of modern society...
...decision which might well be called the Great Compromise of the new Constitution lies in the section dealing with the appointive-elective issue. The Committee, in spite of what must have been great popular pressure, resisted the completely elective dogma and instead significantly revised downward the proportion of appointed men on their new Council. Only three of nineteen members will henceforth be appointed...
...international calamity, for the proposals of the country's new leaders' portend actions that will speak louder and harsher than the sweetly-phrased statements of American delegates at the United Nations. The extreme movement right in a world going left widens the breach between political ideologies and dogma, but the economic necessities of one world will always remain...