Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council, China's mellow statesman seemed to remember the wisdom of the Analects: "Men are born pretty much alike, but through their habits they gradually grow further and further apart from each other." Imperturbable, patient, conciliatory, Dr. Quo sought to bridge the chasm of habits. His logic was simple and overwhelming (when Gromyko asked why the chairman had halted discussion, Dr. Quo answered: "I have no more speakers on my list...
With building after building, Wright had proved that it is possible to imitate nature's logic and economy, if not her wanton extravagance, in architecture. His latest proof, announced this month, is a tower laboratory for Johnson's Wax in Racine, Wis. Its 15-story lab is practically all window; all its heating, plumbing and servicing is done through a central mast, from which it is suspended, much like Buckminster Fuller's circular aluminum house (TIME, March 25). It will adjoin the office building Wright designed in 1938, which is held up by columns built like morning...
Last March, suddenly overwhelmed by conscience, City Councilman Sullivan dreamt up a clever way to turn his delinquency complex on the city. "The cause of delinquency," quoth he, "is the pinball machine!" Since logic is logic, his next deduction was simple. "Let's ban it!" he beamed...
...play. He is an astute, cynical worldling whose decree is merely a sop to the crowd and whose desire is to save his niece's life; and he is played with chilling elegance by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. If Antigone has ethics on her side, Creon has logic on his-which may explain why the Nazis raised no squawk...
...Said German Ernst Haeckel: "Not even the clearest and most precise logic makes a man a match for a Jesuit...