Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Einstein, was only partly instructive, not wholly entertaining. Fadiman tried to give his hearers a glimmer of the theory's importance : atomic scientists had used it, he said, in calculating the amount of energy in an atom. Concluded Fadiman: "Before Einstein, there was one essential error in the logic of physics - it considered...
...most new churches will look just like the old ones. Says Walter A. Taylor, consultant to the Interdenominational Bureau of Architecture: "History and logic to the contrary, the now familiar forms of the Victorian and neo-Gothic have become a tradition-the phrases of architectural language which say 'church...
...want to die" roars up the desperate skill and clamor of the "men who fight to live." Both the intrepidity of reason, and the intrepidity of whatever the Japanese use in its place, are caught in The Fleet That Came to Stay in a relationship beyond all logic. It is not a pleasant film. It is an immemorially primitive nightmare in extremely modern dress; a dance of death...
With iron logic, the declaration also described the only alternative: invasion and "the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland." All in all, the terms added up to a hard peace but not to a ruthless one. In population, living standards, sovereignty and trade, the Japan they envisioned would not be inferior to the Japan of two generations...
Areas not mentioned in the Harvard Report fill out this part of the Yale program: the ancient world (requirement to be met by a course in ancient lanuage, history, philosophy, or art), systematic thinking (requirement to be met by a course in mathematics, logic, or linguistics), and the interdependence of knowledge, a rather indefinite--category for which courses have not yet been chosen...