Word: dogmas
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...dragooning the peasants into agrogorods, equipped with tractor fleets, Khrushchev was confident that he could mechanize Soviet farming. He also expected to mechanize the farmers. Soviet geneticists (e.g., Trofim Lysenko) have erected into Communist dogma the notion that man is mere animal, condemned by nature to acquire the characteristics of his environment. Khrushchev tested the theory in his agrogorods. Just as the Soviet factories had produced a "new Soviet man" (e.g., Khrushchev), so he believed that the agrogorod environment would develop a new agrarian robot divorced from the muzhik's "old village backwardness...
...Socialists reject it on the ground of Socialist dogma: capitalist nations cannot be progressive; the U.S. is capitalist: therefore, the U.S. is an anti-social exploiter, Q.E.D. British Socialists have a special resentment against American capitalism: it works. A decaying American capitalism could be treated with the tolerance and condescension that is the hallmark of the Fabian spirit. But neither Fabius nor Sidney Webb would know what to do with a capitalist enemy that really achieves its ends. The success of American capitalism in raising American living standards can neither be believed nor forgiven. It can only be evaded...
...Muted Right. The Eisenhower Administration is also profoundly and explicitly conservative, and it rises specifically to the defense of ancient verities. But this awakens no more friendly response from British conservatives than American progressivism evokes from the left. With the conservatives, the trouble is not dogma but politico-sclerosis...
...centuries, have taken the New Testament to mean not a continuation but a repudiation of the Old." Because Williams' powerful opponents had modeled the Massachusetts Bay Colony after the fire and thunder kingdoms of the Old Testament, and considered it a social crime to differ with the Massachusetts' Congregational dogma, the implications of Williams' opinions were treasonous and heretical. According to him, the kingdoms of Saul and David were nothing but anachronisms...
...endangering the College. The election of Samuel Webber to the presidency in 1806 marked the first in a long line of Unitarian presidents. Samuel Eliot Morison writes, "Orthodox Calvinists, of the true puritan tradition now became open enemies to Harvard.... Unitarianism of the Boston stamp was not a fixed dogma but a point of view that was receptive, searching, inquiring, and yet devout; a halfway house to the rationalistic and scientific point of view...