Word: dogmatist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing Top-Loftical. Whitman was a great, .puffing manifesto writer, a dogmatist of the "I." In view of this, it is odd that in the most personal of all art forms, the private letter, Whitman should be rather closemouthed. He disdained "top-loftical" correspondence and "fancy words," so that there is a good deal of all-too-plain prose about the Washington weather, small sums of money, and "good grub" at his boardinghouse. The reason for his reticence seems to be that when the poet's private emotions were most powerfully involved, convention made him rein in his rhetoric...
...Communist system, the top dog must also be top dogmatist. In seven years as the Soviet Union's highly practical boss, Nikita Khrushchev has worked out a doctrine of coexistence between Communism and the West to suit the realities of a highly developed Soviet industrial society. The doctrine has come under increasing attack from the militant revolutionaries of Communist China (TIME, June 27). Last week, calling Eastern European Communist leaders to his side, Khrushchev went before the Rumanian Party Congress in Bucharest to give his first direct answer to Mao Tse-tung's challenge to his ideological primacy...