Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professors were able to avoid terms of "reform through labor." The victims use a different phrase today: "being sent to the countryside." Many were so persecuted that they committed suicide. Says Huan Xiang, vice president we the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: 'Tor years we imbued ourselves in dogma. Our heads were down and our feet were up in the air. Now we have our feet back on the ground...
...York est class. Her perfectly timed charges, wired together in a tightly-structured essay, totally demolish Werner Erhard's sham life-training course. When she turns to Jane Fonda or Billy Graham, she wields a razor instead of a club, making accurate, carefully-planned incisions. She distrusts dogma wherever she finds it, whether in Graham's entrepreneurial righteousness or Fonda's one-dimensional millionaire liberalism. A dedicated feminist, she nevertheless gets us past the cant and rhetoric that hardens around the core of feminist issues. Her review of Linda Bird Francke's book on her own abortion derides "Pro-choice...
...whether the government would, or could, deliver on the spirit of the agreement. Even with the best of intentions, how could the regime, already economically strapped, deliver on its bread-and-butter promises? Would Warsaw really permit independent labor organizations to rival the party-controlled unions prescribed by Leninist dogma? If so, would Moscow tolerate such a challenge to the Communist Party's monopoly of power? Kania was reassuring in a speech before the Central Committee Friday night. Said he: "We shall take care that all these agreements are implemented...
Fringe party candidates always get about the same minuscule percentage of the vote; only a few opt to salve their consciences by supporting the dogma-ridden, the-revolution-is-coming corners of American politics. But this year, the candidacy of Commoner and his Citizens Party running mate LaDonna Harris, may pick up one or two per cent of the vote. Commoner is well-known to liberals, and by all accounts well-loved, the evangelical scientist, who appeals mostly to academics and environmentalists. If enough leftists, especially on campuses, vote for him, they could tip the balance...
Even so, the Soviet government and the Orthodox Church leadership continue in an odd embrace-one that leaves the church semifree to operate, though it is politically controlled and thus compromised. Despite Marxist dogma, Orthodoxy as a living faith in the U.S.S.R. represents continuity with the nation's pre-Soviet past. It also serves to legitimize the Communist government and its claims to "acknowledge" religious practice...