Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something like Hell. That audience is the result of Lewis' special gift for dramatizing Christian dogma. He would be the last to claim that what he says is new; but, like another eloquent and witty popularizer of Christianity, the late G. K. Chesterton, he has a talent for putting old-fashioned truths into a modern idiom...
...said that he had meant "enslavement" and not "servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention cannot be concealed in bushes." As usual, Gromyko dragged his listeners around the same point through interminable repetitions. His reasoning was pervaded by the sublimely simple conviction that the Communist dogma was The Truth and would prevail. He was surrounded by an intangible body of strangeness, as though he had come from another planet and carried a piece of its peculiar atmosphere with...
...paleolithic specimen. When the Communist Party hacked its bloody way to power in 1917, Gromyko was eight years old. He, like millions with him and after him, never had a toy, a dream, a book or an ideal that was not somehow tinged by the penetrating hue of Communist dogma. That such men exist, that they occupy positions of power is one of the most important facts in today's world. Gromyko does not belong in the category of the commissars of the 1920s, who were far more imaginative and volatile. He is closer to the yogi type?a yogi...
...Alex, ander P. Morozov (a non-Miltonian) told a UNESCO committee that it was all very simple: "a small group of monopolists" kept most of the world press in chains; "communal ownership" (state monopoly) kept the Russian press free (by which a Russian means faithful to the Party dogma). There ought to be a law, he said, to make the capitalist press behave...
...ever. His backers figured that he had 393 sure convention votes of the 547 needed for nomination. Western Republicans were already warning California's Governor Earl Warren that unless he got off the fence soon, western delegates would swing to Dewey. And Dewey men confidently cited the political dogma that, the more Democratic opposition stiffened, the more professional GOPsters would turn to Tom Dewey as the one man who could carry the Republicans into office. They were confident that, by the time he headed back to Albany, the Dewey strategy would have the nomination...