Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern industry also must have social and economic units far bigger than the family, the city or the region. It requires education not as a means of imparting fixed dogma but as a process of training the mind to seek its own answers. In short, the secret of Western success is not merely technology, but the Promethean or Faustian spirit...
Such hardheaded business-before-dogma characterizes Tito's attitude toward nearly all the problems of the Yugoslav economy. Alone among Red peoples, Yugoslavs may freely travel to the West. Many do, and stay to work, but they send $60 million back home each year. Nearly 87% of the land in Yugoslavia is still privately farmed. "We exported grain last year," shrugs a Belgrade official. "How many other socialist countries export grain?" The government is in the process of handing over more and more independence to local factory management. "Within five years," says a Belgrade economist, "our factory managers will...
...education does not mean indoctrination in a party line. At best the group would claim a "somewhat coherent overview" of what must be done to change American society. This step-down from dogma again sets off the generation of the 60's. The radicals of the 50's, similar to their predecessors of the 30's, held an almost Stalinist conception of leadership whereby a few key leaders would give the group its doctrine. These earlier radicals view the lack of ideology as the main weakness of the New Left. To them, SDS is "hung up on problems of participatory...
...India Radio earlier in the week had already answered her critics. "This government," she said, "is fully committed to the objectives of a socialist and democratic society. But our socialism is one that is related to the reality of the Indian situation. It is not wedded to any dogma. What we all want is a better life, with more food, employment and opportunities. Let us not become prisoners of words...
...Swiss theologian who proselytized for the early 20th century Protestant movement against the attenuating liberalism of the day, and argued for a return to a systematic theology that accepted the Bible as the only source of divine revelation; following a stroke; in Zurich. The articulate Brunner carried the dogma of neo-orthodoxy to Protestant seminaries around the world, was often compared to his fellow countryman Karl Earth, who espoused the same biblicism, but the two sometimes disagreed on the application of Christian principles to life...