Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is not a matter of liberalism versus conservatism. To be a liberal one does not have to be a wastrel . . . The budget issue is simply one of arithmetic and logic...
Committee: "I have never seen any logic in maintaining diplomatic relations with Russia, for instance, while refusing diplomatic relations with Spain ... I do not approve Spain's form of government. Neither do I approve Russia's form of government...
...Harmonies. Smuts's argument sounded logical enough, but ordinary logic does not rule the Commonwealth. Britain and the other Commonwealth nations wanted India in the family, no matter how nebulous the arrangement. For over a week, the Ministers debated the issue with India's sad-eyed Prime Minister
...selection of material is ruthlessly right. The war story, for most of its path, crashes like a hurtling tank through the forest of events. But the hard unity and rounded drama of each chapter brakes the rush, preserves a sense of direction, and imposes a feeling of historic logic. The pictures themselves satisfy, or fail to, in about the same degree and frequency as actuality itself. Yet now & again, as actuality can, a few moments blaze with the fire of art. Items...
...sounded like the dizziest Hollywood logic, but it was a fact. Box-office grosses, despite a slight recent recovery, had not gone back to the wartime highs. Pictures had moved so fast through the nation's theaters that Hollywood's huge stockpile vas almost exhausted. The big sound stages were suddenly put furiously to work to supply the theaters' demands...