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...served on the Massachusetts and New England selection committees, I believe these impressions are somewhat in error. The selection committees received no instruction or intimation, either written or verbal, from the American office of the Rhodes Trust at Swarthmore regarding last year's heavy Harvard representation. The sole criterion now and always is that of selecting the best men in terms of the Rhodes specifications...
...eliminate fallacies by using an artificial language of symbols into which the truths of science and ordinary descriptive statements could be translated in order to test their accuracy. The "Vienna Circle" of logical positivists-who carried their ideas to Britain and the U.S. in the 1930s-declared that the criterion of meaning was verifiability; if the meaning of a statement could not be verified by empirical procedures, it was literally nonsense. But, as Russell pointed out, this criterion was itself a philosophical principle...
This week Pollster Sam Lubell reports that about one-third of the people interviewed by Lubell consider Johnson to be a "better President" than Kennedy. The corollary: two-thirds still think that Kennedy was the better President -and if practical accomplishment alone is to be the criterion, that is an odd judgment. The fact is that people want and need legends as well as accomplishments; the ability to lift, to inspire-to become legendary-is in itself an accomplishment no less concrete because it is intangible...
Kahn's idea of the "rational" use of force shows the inadequacy of his approach. For Kahn, the criterion of "rationality" is not morality, justice, or even a judgment on the ends for which force is employed. "Rationality" is merely a degree of "reasonable control," as assurance that violence will always be consistent with its goals. In an age when an accidental of miscalculated war can bring universal disaster, such emphasis is admittedly important. But the vagueness of American ideas on what is wanted after the violence--and to his credit, Kahn deplores this vagueness--casts doubt...
...Kennedys have come to symbolize to many the pursuit of excellence and the standard of ability as the criterion for advancement. It is therefore doubly disillusioning, disheartening and disgusting for them to advocate Morrissey for a federal judgeship...