Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combating heresy and defining the truths that form the credo of most believing Christians; Trent and most of the medieval councils placed greater emphasis on tightening church discipline. Pope John's new council, frankly aimed at "modernizing" the church, will have plenty to do in both discipline and dogma. The Vatican Council of 1869-70, even though it was the first churchwide convocation in more than 300 years, did little more than define papal infallibility before it broke up at the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Thus, in its present battle against the secular world, the flesh...
...Wall Street Journal: "It is not at all clear that the U.N. has some moral duty to subdue Tshombe by force. Secretary-General Thant is no Abraham Lincoln trying to hold together a great nation." Barron's, a business and financial weekly, stated flatly that "despite Communist dogma, the ends never justify the means. In Katanga both ends and means are wholly unworthy of free...
Students, though avowedly communist, show the same lack of commitment to dogma, both speakers agreed. Kennedy commended the Political Institute in Costa Rica, a school educating the democratically oriented in an attempt to "strengthen their ideology and train them to organize parties that can combat the communists...
...Harvard community must not be implicated to an extent greater than their participation. And perhaps most important, Tocsin must not let the less rational (and less representative) participants succeed in their inevitable attempt to usurp the walk and use it as a platform for their own nuclear-dogma...
Ionesco once revealed: "I try only to explain myself ...I have decided not to recognize any laws except those of my own imagination." It follows, since the great restriction of our time (as Ionesco sees it) is dogma, that the writer must declare his freedom from the ideological discipline most vociferously. And when he concludes that there is no Message, he does so with pride rather than despair. The process by which Ionesco's heroes are forced into aloneness by an encroaching world is (ironically) a victorious and heroic one. Their solitude is the glorification of their individualism...