Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burnham, the ex-Communist, ex-Trotskyite professor who has recently been canonized by Time-Life, is a shrewder, slicker model of this type (top of his Princeton class, always a sharp dresser); his book is smart, superficially cogent, and therefore the more dangerous. His thesis is that the time is ripe for world empire by one power, and that the inescapable conflict is between Russia and the United States. Borrowing handfuls from historian Arnold Teynbee's arbitrary classification of civilizations (what are the criteria for a civilization?), Burnham sees America as the saviour of Western Civilization from the dynamic surge...
Prefacing his remarks with this cogent query, one of Wellesley's finest last night launched into an extended commentary on statutory law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with special emphasis on rules relating to traffic control...
...Crotty, who had bid $127,500,000, saw more than WAA blundering in all this. Well aware of the lobbying by railroads, coal operators and John L. Lewis' own U.M.W. to prevent the lines from being used at all, Crotty charged that WAA had prevented conversion "for no cogent" but for some "sinister or political" reason...
...most cogent reasons for opposing a general rise in the level of student veterans' subsistence allotments is that only a minority of those who would receive the raise really need it. If everyone could be counted on to spend the entirety of his new allotment for absolute necessities, this additional purchasing power would contribute nothing to the current inflationary spiral; but this condition will not result when the majority of veterans are living adequately, though not sumptuously, for the increase would be spent on non-necessity items which otherwise would not be purchased...
...concept is cogent if not staggeringly original, and on-the-spot scenes in Berlin, Rome, and Madrid add force to the picture. Ann Richards contributes one of the most perfect speaking voices ever recorded, Sylvia Sidney an excellent performance, and Robert Young a debonair priggishness. He is the very model of a blind American ambassador...