Word: dogmatist
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Bluntly candid, Mann was known as a hard-liner on Latin American affairs. He himself insisted, "I am a pragmatist, not a dogmatist," but was criticized for his disapproval of some left-wing but non-Communist Latin regimes, his rigorous criteria for economic aid and determined promotion of free enterprise in developing countries. Criticism failed to deter him, however, and his resignation indicates neither a shift in Administration Latin policy nor a disagreement...
...pragmatist, not a dogmatist," says Thomas Clifton Mann, "and I am not a miracle worker." Mann, 51, will need all of his pragmatism and may even have to work a few miracles if he is to succeed in his new job as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and President Johnson's top policymaker and adviser on the difficult, demanding world of Latin America...
...middleclass, and the ex-colonies tend toward Socialism but hardly toward Communism. Nikita Khrushchev favors changing the theory to fit these facts more closely; he is, as Peking accurately charges, a revisionist. Mao Tse-tung favors changing the facts to fit the theory; he is, as Moscow says, a dogmatist...
...beneath the bluster Ben Bella is more pragmatist than dogmatist, and Algeria's sorry state persuaded him to begin tacking with the Western wind. "He is determined to feed, clothe and employ his people," said one Western diplomat, "and he's going to kick over any 'isms' that...
...good time the ordinary peoples of that vast area [Russia], encouraged by higher standards of material life, begin to look again for that spiritual food, without which man has never lived for prolonged periods since he came into the world." Appearing at the University of Chicago, Swiss Dogmatist Karl Barth, whose Epistle to the Romans 44 years ago started him on the theological career that has taken him to the top rank of Protestantism (TIME cover, April 20), had a new message for the U.S. Everyone was aware that Barth has long faulted the West for being as materialistic...