Word: aristotelian
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There had been an article in Mind and another play-up in, I think, the Aristotelian Society Proceedings; people had been talking about meaning and making an awful mess of it, and we'd been reading them by accident--neither of us knew the other was interested at all--and we started making comments on them. We stood there two hours on the stairway 'till one o'clock. I can remember a bats-wing gas-burner above my head. This was out of kilter and every little while it squealed and I would reach up and try to adjust...
...founding a record company to preserve the music of early New Orleans jazzmen. Inevitably, as the son of the late syndicated columnist Heywood Broun, he became a sportswriter "with a crust of adjectives as thick as barnacles on a pearling lugger."* Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting. "I brought to the stage," he recalls, "a keen sense of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope-and none of Stanislavski...
Part of the distrust of the law-and of legal doctrine-is explained by the general Chinese dislike of abstraction. The Chinese intellect tends not to distinguish between general and particular ideas. The Chinese resists logical analysis in the Aristotelian either/or sense. He reasons in what, to the Western mind, seems a chain of non sequiturs. Similarly, the Chinese tends to regard events, not as a matter of cause and effect, but in terms of symmetrical patterns...
...Virgin crushing the serpent beneath her heel. The Hindus revere the serpent as the symbol of all nature, good and vile together. Asians generally are capable of believing that something is simultaneously good and bad, right and wrong, black and white-in a manner that drives the Western, Aristotelian, either-or mentality to distraction...
Nothing thrills Onassis more than profits, and he wants to get an Aristotelian share from the rich North Atlantic airline routes. Counting Olympic, 21 scheduled airlines will be dogfighting this year for some $800 million in revenues from an expected 4,100,000 passengers. Longtime No. 1 Pan American last year had 20.3% of the traffic, but faces increasing competition from TWA (17.7%) and BOAC (12.6%). During the traffic-heavy summer months, efficient, unsubsidized carriers like Pan Am and TWA can gross $27,000 on a typical flight, earn $15,000 per trip-an operating profit of 55%. Even such...