Word: dogmas
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...used a variety of ways to scare up money for new projects: tapping local businessmen and expatriates for donations of cash and equipment, digging into their own pockets, and soliciting money and materials from friends in the States. I have long felt the Peace Corps needs to revise its dogma on equipping Volunteers with money and supplies. The official line holds that the Volunteer should offer only himself, not material aid, because such aid will discourage local people from making their own contributions. The rule is a sensible one, but frequently the equipment in question--a tool or a motion...
...Among Men in Czechoslovakia, in the other Communist countries it goes under the less subtle title of How to Be have. The first and only socialist book of manners, it contains a refresher course in gentility for the comrades, who have long been taught as part of Communist dogma to regard all high manners as decadent. Its author is a Prague psychiatrist, Milena Majorová, who reminds her readers at the outset that "human beings are not polar bears -they are not satisfied with merely a female of the species and enough food...
Generally, Catholic educators have relied on religious texts based on the 1884 Baltimore Catechism - a turgid compendium of factual questions and answers that the student was expected to learn by role. Last week the Paulist fathers introduced a new catechism that puts dogma in language that children, rather than theologians, can understand. More important, it tries to relate the student's intuition of the divine to his own youthful experience...
...known he was "pleased." But many a moneyman growled that the Chase's rate cut seemed too much, too soon. "A case of acting without regard to supply and demand," insisted President Mills Lane Jr. of Atlanta's Citizens & Southern National Bank. Fitting deeds to the dogma, other commercial banks, led by Manhattan's First National City, next day cut their prime rates only half as much, from 6% to 5½%. If the rate settles across the U.S. at that level, Chase Manhattan could avoid a deluge of loan demand only by conforming...
...That son of a bitch Castelli, he has the nerve to sell anything. He could even sell beer cans." Whereupon Jasper Johns proceeded to create his famous pop-art beer cans. Since the emergence of pop, with its move back to representation, abstraction has ceased to be the absolute dogma of the artistic church, whose chief theology today is the "reality theory...