Word: dogmas
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...obviously sympathetic discussion of Berenice's training in Yogi lore reveals that Dreiser has finally found solutions to problems long troubling him. Always religious in nature and temperament, Dreiser devoted a good deal of his life to a search for earthly realization of the values of Christ. Rejecting Church dogma as sterile and oppressive, he ultimately found his personal Christ in Communism. Yet Dreiser's moving desire to explain the life force in other than material terms demanded a religious justification of his views. Not until "The Bulwark" did he discover one. Then, he saw a possible solution...
This report, according to S. Smith Stevens, director of the Psycho-Acoustic Lab, revolutionizes the study of hearing aids, for it attacks the "dogma that hearing aids, like eye glasses, must be fitted to the detailed idiosyncrasies of the individual impairment...
Something like Hell. That audience is the result of Lewis' special gift for dramatizing Christian dogma. He would be the last to claim that what he says is new; but, like another eloquent and witty popularizer of Christianity, the late G. K. Chesterton, he has a talent for putting old-fashioned truths into a modern idiom...
...said that he had meant "enslavement" and not "servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention cannot be concealed in bushes." As usual, Gromyko dragged his listeners around the same point through interminable repetitions. His reasoning was pervaded by the sublimely simple conviction that the Communist dogma was The Truth and would prevail. He was surrounded by an intangible body of strangeness, as though he had come from another planet and carried a piece of its peculiar atmosphere with...
...paleolithic specimen. When the Communist Party hacked its bloody way to power in 1917, Gromyko was eight years old. He, like millions with him and after him, never had a toy, a dream, a book or an ideal that was not somehow tinged by the penetrating hue of Communist dogma. That such men exist, that they occupy positions of power is one of the most important facts in today's world. Gromyko does not belong in the category of the commissars of the 1920s, who were far more imaginative and volatile. He is closer to the yogi type?a yogi...