Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen, who met his future wife when they were adolescent logic-choppers in the Alliance's Comte Synthetic Circle...
...Logic, the Prime Minister said, had proved fatal to parliamentary government. Logic, Churchill added without a smile, created the semicircular assemblies "which give every member not only a seat to sit in but often a desk with a lid to bang. . . and enable every individual or group to move around the center adopting various shades of pink according to how the weather changes." In an oblong chamber, where those who support the government face those who oppose it, "crossing the floor requires serious consideration...
...this is the very logic which explodes the theory itself. What safety can there ever be in a hereditary monarchy when even a ruler with a fairly enlightened point of view is nothing but the tool of the faction in power? . . . The religious zeal of Japanese loyalty and patriotism must be broken, and through the Emperor, if humanism is ever to penetrate to the Nipponese themselves...
...nearby Africa, the Allies he once mocked had grown terrifyingly powerful. Even his meekest & mildest neighbor, Portugal, nestling in Spain's Atlantic flank, was holding grim and elaborate civil-defense exercises, and rumor ran fast that she might be about to join the Allies. If, in the logic of events, Germany declared war on Portugal, the squeeze would fall on Franco. He knows, better than most, that the Allies owe him no gratitude, that any advance against him would be an advance against Hitler...
...little tired himself with the exultant paradoxes of logic and the exuberant paradoxes of life, Chesterton fell asleep once & for all in 1936. He was 62. Said his friendly enemy, Bernard Shaw: "A man of colossal genius...