Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black sheep among the Richard Strauss tone poems. It has consistently been denied the great popularity of the earlier works, even of later works like Ein Heldenleben. Probably the reason is its extreme digressiveness: it rambles along, absolutely unfettered by considerations of structure, and the resulting lack of logic makes irritating, and even bewildering listening for many. Yet in many ways it is Strauss's greatest work. It shows a variety and a breadth of spirit unequalled in anything else he wrote. The humor in Till Eulenspiegel, for example, is obvious stuff compared to the brilliant whimsy...
...schools and at too many colleges. A citizen in the Harvard community is regarded as such. Yet, though the liquor and cut liberalizations were put through here long ago, the parietal rules still lag behind those of Yale and Princeton. At present a Student Council committee is investigating the logic which distinguishes parietal discipline from supervision over the student's other private affairs at college...
...Garden Logic. Murray is no wild-eyed rabble-rouser. He is a solemn, quietly dressed man who has his own garden variety of logic. He has put his spade into technological unemployment in steel; with a wry face has turned over many a fact: that, for instance, however effective they have been in lowering price, continuous automatic strip mills are, according to Murray's reckoning, displacing more than 84,700 workers. Says Murray: "I will not be sidetracked ... by engaging in any debate on whether these workers will or will not find other jobs five, ten or twenty years...
...Japanese enjoy an oriental logic of their own and twice last week they exhibited...
...order to give an example of our deficiency as a unit in competition, the editor stated that Yale outshoot us last summer. His logic is poor, since his example is as true as inferring that all Harvard is radical because of the Student Union. The official report of firing practices by Harvard units on the U.S.S. Wyoming states that the firing training "was basically sound--this conclusion is verified by the fact that the practice was fired without casualties to material or personnel." The report from U.S.S. Leary of July 9th, 1940, in this regard, remarks, "Harvard R.O.T.C juniors...