Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is simple and it is nice it seems general it seems vague but isn't there a lot of truth in it. It is the same with Gertrude Stein's stories the stories she tells about the French to show their logic and their sense of fashion, qualities that make them seem peaceful and exciting, for instance Monsieur Lambert. Gertrude Stein met him with his wife and oxen...
Longer than In Defense of Love, as unaggressive and scrupulous as the latter is hog-wild, is The Successful Error, by Rudolf Allers. Rudolf Allers is a psychiatrist, formerly of Vienna, and a Catholic. Like many a well-educated Catholic, he uses the instruments not of faith but of logic, thereby finds psychoanalysis illogical in its premises, highly rationalized in their proofs. That one such volume should destroy psychoanalysis is most improbable. That laymen should feel qualified either to swallow or spit out its arguments is only too possible. But that such a volume may aid in the reduction...
should immediately give official recognition to the fact and to the logic of the situation-by declaring that a state of war exists between this country and Germany. Only in this constitutional manner can the energies be massed which are indispensable to the successful prosecution of a program of defense." Signers were not fire-eaters: there was Columnist Frank Kent, Editor George Fort Milton, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr. What seemed like the biggest reversal was Walter Millis'. But Mr. Millis, author of the best-selling Road to War that traced the steps...
...Franklin Roosevelt. One morning last week he read in an editorial in the New York Times: "The time has come when, in the interest of self-protection, the American people should at once adopt a national system of universal, compulsory military training. We say this . . . because the logic of events drives us remorselessly to this conclusion." Mr. Roosevelt said he liked the paragraph...
...When we say war attains none of the ideals to which it pretends, we are thinking only of American intervention once before. Then there were the same ideals and the same fears. In a stunningly brief interval, all that seems to have been forgotten. The "inexorable logic of events" has driven the American people to "gratifying" new realism-a logic and a realism given edifying exemplification in the editorial columns of the "Traveler...