Word: dogmatists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maitland, God is not so much a presence as an "absence in the heart," and faith is a yearning to fill the void. His natural enemies in the faith are the Irish dogmatists for whom God is not an unknowable otherness but a "kinsman" -in his most ignoble form honorary president of an Irish friendly society. The ecclesiastical embodiment of the dogmatist faith is Dr. Costello, a clerical bully who heads the House of Studies and, perhaps prophetically, grows to bishop-size before the reader's eyes...
...throwers all get a chance to show their stuff under his skeptical gaze. Drawing from Gustave le Bon's 1895 book The Crowd, he views the investing public as a highly volatile and irrational mass mind that usually overreacts and does the wrong thing. Yet Smith/Goodman is neither dogmatist nor snob, as evidenced by his parody of Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, maybe you haven't heard the news...
...conducting, said Richard Strauss, "the first two beats come from God, but then it gets difficult." Prospective conductors who want to learn the difficult part have been gathering in Vienna for 22 years to study with a bushy-browed, long-winded dogmatist named Hans Swarowsky. The world's top teacher of the art, Swarowsky, 67, heads the elite conducting classes at the Vienna Music Academy. He offers students the vintage Viennese musical heritage. He also offers a powerful intellect honed on studies in Freudian psychiatry and art history as well as music. And he employs a classroom method-unorthodox...
...John Courtney Murray, D.S.T., Jesuit theologian. Determined fighter for freedom in the observance, practice, and witness of religion, scorner of ambiguist and dogmatist alike, priest, professor, eminent theologian, author and editor...
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...