Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inescapable conclusion would be that cinema scores must be written with almost as much logic, creative power, and structural concern as a symphony or tone-poem. Unless the hundreds of musical notes used in a movie have some organic connection with each other, besides that of being in the same picture, unless they form a coherent unity by themselves, they will be no better on the screen than they would playd to audiences in the concert hall. Our Town was the revelation of a new approach, a significant step in the growth of American music...
Philosophy A and at least five additional courses are prerequisite to any attempts to wage intellectual combat with Mr. Russell on his home field of mathematical logic. His calm, waiting stare is enough to topple the confidence of the crassest bluffer that ever fooled a section...
...citizen to test his faith in democracy is the gallery of the U. S. House of Representatives. Down below, in that swarm of 435 members, small men, bound by the small necessities of politics, outnumber big men. House debate often sounds like an aimless caterwauling; order, purpose, logic more often than not seem lost in a parliamentary jungle. Yet there is order, of a kind. It is arranged and enforced by a few members: the Majority and Minority Leaders, the chairmen and ranking members of key committees (Rules, Ways & Means, Judiciary, Appropriations)-and above all by the Speaker...
...specialties are optics and spectroscopy, has bottled up his irritation when he read glib squibs about spring "beginning" on March 21, or summer "beginning" on June 21. Last week he blew the cork off with a letter to Science captioned "What is Summer?" There is no reason in nature, logic or language, declared Professor Sleator, why the seasons should be bounded by the two equinoxes and the two solstices. He wants summer to be June, July and August; autumn, September, October, November; and so on for winter and spring...
...bride to the backwoods, where together they raise a family of three, build an inappropriately ornate house, try to reconcile their clashing view points. As a backwoods member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Matt is fired by rabble-rousing Patrick Henry (Richard Gaines), and by the quiet logic of his good friend Thomas Jefferson (Richard Carlson). When war comes he marches off to battle, endures the black days of Valley Forge. Meanwhile Jane returns to the house of her Tory brother (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). The ending leaves Matt and Jane reconciled not so much by the bright future...