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...become heterosexuals. (He didn't explain how, but I suspect he thinks praying really hard would do it, as if most of us who grew up gay and evangelical hadn't tried that every night as teenagers.) Homosexuality, Pastor Warren explained in the virtually content-free language of the dogmatist, is "not the natural way." And then he went right for the ick factor, the way middle-school boys do: "Certain body parts are meant to fit together...
...with the money supply growing at a superheated annual rate of more than 16%, critics argued that Volcker should slow the pace. When a Congressman tried to pin him down on what course he would take in 1983, the Fed chief made it clear he was no dogmatist: "You're saying, 'For God's sake, give us a simple rule that you can follow!' And I'm afraid I'm suspicious of any rule that is that simple.' It is not even certain that Volcker will be chairman of the Fed beyond next August, when his term expires. Should Reagan...
...They don't raise doves in the Kremlin," says Medvedev. "But where Mikhail Suslov [the late party ideologue] was a dogmatist, Andropov is a pragmatist. The major problems of Soviet foreign policy today?Poland and Afghanistan?cannot be solved by applying more power, but through skill and flexibility...
...Washington, it seems, is pondering the President's mind these days and wondering about this classic drama of leadership. Is he a visionary or a dogmatist? Is he courageous enough to change? Or stubborn enough...
Teng works in a wary, complementary partnership with Hua. The Hua-Teng relationship has a kind of model in the roles and personalities of Mao and of Chou Enlai, who was Teng's sponsor and protector. While Mao was a visionary and Hua remains his dogmatist and disciple, Chou, like Teng, was a flexible realist. There is still undoubtedly personal as well as ideological conflict between Teng and Hua. Hua, for example, approved Teng's second purging, but now apparently endorses the Four Modernizations. In a sense, Hua may play chairman of the board to Teng's chief executive officer...