Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also preaches a strangely ambiguous moral. Kris Kringle inveighs against the commercialism which has perverted Christmas. But most of the wit and comedy in the show, all of the logic, and much of the sentiment, endorse the idea that faith, honesty, kindness, magnanimity and the innocence of the imagination are chiefly to be respected because no other kind of investment pays off a fraction so well, in hard cash and at the voting booths...
Rife as it is with florid incident and outrageous coincidence, this yarn is hardly credible on a purely "realistic" basis. But it has about it a great deal of the strange and thrilling logic of a fairy tale, a poem or a dream. It is even an allegory though not a rigid...
...biographical facts are true, as far as they go. But the Marx he presents is a man with his brain cut out. Hence the facts add up to a caricature. Schwarzschild's thesis is that Karl Marx was 1) a rabbinical thinker whose pyramids of abstract logic were brilliant, but had nothing to do with facts; 2) a vicious egomaniac determined to ruin any man or group that he could not dominate; 3) a political seer whose prognostications were almost always wrong; 4) a self-styled "scientific" socialist whose science was about as scientific as astrology; 5) an economist...
...minor incident highlighted a serious problem last week. Liberian airfield workers just could not grasp the U.S. logic in shutting down a nice strategic base like Roberts Field, on the west bulge of Africa. They missed their regular pay. The Army had buttoned up the big Air Transport base at the end of March and left a handful of G.I. guards to hold off the exuberant jungle and its prowlers from the runways and buildings...
This summary wiping out of the activities of the Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs does in a way possess a curious internal logic. The action "saves" 31-million-odd dollars in OIC outlay; it pleases those congressional minds who feel that the existence of America is, as such, her own best propaganda; and it ends the life of the OIC, the successor of that OWI which so many Congressmen unflinchingly regard as communistic...