Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis Armstrong feels about rhythm: "Why man, if you gotta ask what it is, then you ain't got it." This kind of answer makes most people drop the topic, and classifies the persistent investigator as an ignorant boor. But for those who insist on some more telling argument for higher learning than mere manners, several kinds of answers are available...
Ultimate Goal. The Cowles view of world opinion rejects the argument that recognition of Communist China would go too far in making Communism respectable in Asia. Said the Des Moines Tribune in January 1951, shortly after the Red Chinese intervened in Korea: "Yes, we know that Communist China is an aggressor, a violator of the United Nations Charter . . . But it is the government of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese land and people. We might as well recognize this fact. And if we want to tell Mao Tse-tung he is a bad boy ... we shall have to recognize...
...other phase of Eastern's strike is jurisdictional, an argument between the pilots' and engineers' unions over whether the "third man" in the cockpit shall be a pilot or an engineer (TIME, May 5). Eastern has agreed with the pilots' union that the engineer on pure jets should be a trained pilot also. It is willing to give its engineers pilot training at company expense, but the engineers say this is no help; as pilots, they will be at the bottom of seniority lists, will be laid off if the line starts reducing its crews because...
...Riley, director of the Massachusetts Historical Society, will speak on the Society in Holmes Hall, while Kenneth Burke will speak on a "Dramatistic Calculus" in Emerson 237. Friday evening at 8 p.m. Professor Norman A. Malcolm of Cornell will lecture to members of the Philosophical Club on "Ontological Argument" in Emerson...
Even the old argument that good food is necessary for good athletic performance has lost much of its force, in the face of strong medical evidence to the contrary. An exhaustive study by three doctors at the Harvard School of Public Health two years ago seemed to prove that the physiological effects of the training meal were negligible. The only consolation offered to old-school devotees was the possibility of psychological benefits--viz. "the sense of security generally attainable by the practice of rituals" or ego-building derived from "eating red meat as a symbol of manly vigor...