Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deviation, and the desire for martyrdom to prove devotion. Jesuit Philosopher and Critic William F. Lynch added that neurotic religion frequently shows up among Roman Catholics as a denial of human feelings, a desire to find the will of God in every decision, and an unhealthy dependence on dogma as a means of obtaining absolute certainty...
Intolleranza is a politically inspired work, but its brotherhood-of-man theme is basic Sunday school rather than party dogma. More important, it represents a significant step in developing a new language for modern opera. And for one at least, the language of Intolleranza carried a very special meaning. Jan Skalicky, the costume designer for the Boston production and son of a former Czech consul to the U.S., announced at week's end that he was defecting...
Across the world, Lysenko's fellow scientists scoffed at his theories; heredity, they believe, is controlled by genes in the reproductive cells and remains unchanged throughout an individual's life. But Lysenko had something else beside his dogma going for him. He was an exceedingly skillful Communist-style politician, and his views held great appeal for Joseph Stalin. They abetted Stalin's will to believe that hereditary traits can be changed in a planned society. For more than a quarter of a century, as those views controlled Soviet biological research and were written into Soviet textbooks, they...
...opponent, Professor Nikolai I. Vavilov, Russia's leading geneticist, to die in Siberia. He purged or silenced other critics in universities and laboratories. While Stalin lived, no one dared to disagree with Lysenko. His primitive exercises in plant and animal breeding had few successes, and lack of dogma-free research contributed heavily to the poor performance of Soviet agriculture...
David Lilienthal rode the seas of controversy and survived. Perhaps he succeeded because he was a supremely practical administrator concerned with getting a job done, attentive to down-to-earth detail, indifferent to dogma. "The short and sure road to despair and surrender is this," he wrote, "to believe that there is, somewhere, a scheme of things that will eliminate conflict, struggle, stupidity, cupidity, personal jealousy. The idea of Utopia is mischievous. as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is bom pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward...