Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post war writers for the effect of their work, although he could not deny the validity of the picture they painted. One may gather that if we are to join Mr. MacLeish in the Word hunt, we are to disregard truth and teach only that which serves our particular dogma. If we have learned an unpleasant fact which does not fit with our sympathies then we are to unlearn it as quickly as possible. The Yale News...
Author Stoddard, whose Rising Tide of Color made a stir 20 years ago, went into Germany last autumn, stayed three months as a special correspondent. His study of the Nazi State through its lower-middle-class functionaries, its multiplicity of iron, dogma-drenched organizations, its remorseless inner circle of lost, clever minds conveys the enormity of that revolution all the more vividly because Stoddard was not merely graveled; he was impressed...
...fully trustworthy, undermines his authority with the troops, paralyzes quick decision and active leadership in the field. At the Dictator's order last week Red Star, newsorgan of the Red Army, announced that Soviet officers have now been given "full power and responsibility," denounced the "dilettantism" and "ossified dogma" of the commissar system...
...wholesaler of ideas, Frank is also largely responsible for the semantics fad. But no theory, no dogma, sticks to Jerome Frank very long. A connoisseur of them, his only principle is not to become enslaved to any set of principles, to trust no rules beyond his own democratic instincts and pragmatic sense...
...Ethel Turp Call on the President (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This appealing little picture, which aims to affirm the democratic dogma, implies some things its creators never intended. One of them is that to call on the President is one of the last things a U. S. Turp ever would or should think of doing...