Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, the Western envoys went to call on Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. The Russians had agreed "in principle" to lift the Berlin blockade; in practice, they refused to budge. It was obvious by now that the Russians were merely carrying on what T. S. Eliot once called "a tedious argument of insidious intent...
...philosophy ("My system is not mine, nor new") pragmatism, naturalism, hedonism and materialism leap into the philosophical arena flashing beautifully tempered verbal weapons, gracefully swipe at each other with sardonic wit and brilliant exposition-until all fall back exhausted by their civilized exhibitionism, each one's argument largely canceled out by all the others. There can be little doubt that Santayana is speaking for himself as referee when The Stranger says: "A good life seems to me a good, and a bad life an evil; but life and death simply are neither good nor evil in my eyes. Life...
Burges Johnson is dissatisfied with American profanity and hopes for an enrichment of all its forms: the oath denunciatory, the oath asseverative, the oath interjectional, the malediction. His argument is a little too mechanically playful, but it is well illustrated and has some grains of sense. Henry L. Mencken (The American Language) contributes an approving foreword, remarking, among other things, that...
...last month the argument went on. Readers argued about Ayer and surrealism, Ayer and mathematics, Ayer and the greenness of grass. One philosopher who paid little heed was Freddie Ayer himself. Last week, far from Oxford and the New Statesman, he was in the U.S., getting ready to teach courses at New York University...
...examiners recommended "frequent use and renewal of the toothbrush." They expressed no preference between natural bristles and nylon bristles (80% of all toothbrushes are now nylon). The argument of natural v. nylon bristles is still raging among dentists; other researchers are busy with tests to find out which bristles cause least damage to enamel...