Word: deweyism
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Logical positivism (a close relative of U.S. Philosopher John Dewey's pragmatism) erects its system of thought on the premise that no statement (except in logic and mathematics) may be considered meaningful if it is not potentially verifiable by evidence of the senses. The idea of God is one of the first things that logical positivists throw overboard. Last week Philosopher Tony Quinton of All Souls' College undertook to dispose of God in the heart of the enemy camp, the Roman Catholic undergraduate Aquinas Society...
...French, second man for the Yardlings all season, has also had two losses. He will probably play Hank Blodgett. Third singles will most likely match Paul Trinchieri with Bob Dewey of Yale. Trinchieri, who started the season as sixth man, is one of the most improved players on the squad...
Demanded one impressed newsman: "Could Taft have done that? Stassen? Dewey? No. Eisenhower? Maybe. A New York crowd would laugh-but these people thought it was wonderful...
...tournament. Since the tale involves two fighters after the same girl, the picture must rely on its prize-fighting scenes, which are, for the most part, mediocre. One of the hangers-on is former middleweight champ Tony Zale, who handles his one line with considerable finesse. The movie introduces Dewey Martin as one of the fighters, and should he ever contemplate acting in another film somebody ought to punch him in the nose for fair...
...international responsibilities (e.g., the Marshall Plan). In 1938, in an outspoken editorial called "A Way of Life," the Times said that World War II was coming and that the U.S. would-and should-be involved. The Times also abandoned its traditional "independent Democratic" leanings to support Willkie in 1940, Dewey in 1948. Says Publisher Sulzberger, a registered Democrat: "I wish we could be just 'independent...