Word: dogma
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...upswept roof edges and exposed concrete beams formed into abstract "timbers." Isozaki's buildings of the '70s and '80s are the converse: instead of Japanizing a universal architectural style, he takes inspiration and ideas from anywhere he chooses, his odd, exciting syntheses unbound either by traditional or by antitraditional dogma. "I consider myself not a Japanese first," Isozaki says, "but rather an internationalist...
...Fundamentalists may have made one enduring point. The Alabama case helped dramatize the extent to which many textbooks have been purged not merely of religious dogma but also of references to the role of religion in history. "The textbook manufacturers are going to be calling in consultants to see what they should be doing about this," predicted Law Professor Michael McConnell of the University of Chicago. "The consequence is going to be a more balanced approach." Deciding how to teach the historical facts of religion without promoting its tenets is a delicate task. Nonetheless, it is one that a nation...
...Washington, whose presence hovered over the Constitutional Convention like a muse, also advocated moderation: "We ((Americans)) are apt to run from one extreme to another," he wrote John Jay in 1786. As for Madison, the Constitution's principal and most elegant-minded architect, his views were straight Enlightenment dogma. "Why has government been instituted at all?" he asked. "Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint." Again: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary" -- a judgment of angels as much as people...
Still I remained at zero, the mid-point between Nothingness and anti-Nothingness, which did not necessarily imply Somethingness, but merely the oppositional juxtaposition of elemental thingnesslessness in the compass of universal nessness. Then, I thought of beating around the burning angst-bush that served as the canine existential dogma that blocked my odyssey. I caught on fire, burning, screaming no one heard me, I thought, except the Hearer, who was asleep for a few hours. I was in pain, but thankfully was saved by a Jorge-Luis Borges short story...
...National Assembly in March, elections for a new 24-member Senate and a 250-member House of Representatives have been scheduled for May. The document also contains sweeping guarantees of human rights, although it has been criticized by some legal observers for adhering too closely to Roman Catholic Church dogma. For example, the charter bans abortions outright...