Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infliction of pain. Society had no right to condemn perversions (of which he meticulously catalogued 600 varieties) since they were "natural," and he cited anthropological and travel books to prove that there was scarcely any aberration that was not sanctioned in some society. In the course of pursuing this logic, he mordantly attacked the hypocritical "virtue" of monarchical France, from the "charity" of landlords, which served only to appease the wrath of the oppressed, to the "justice" of laws administered only to preserve the privileges of the established order...
Last week the NATO powers accepted this logic. "The peoples of Eastern Europe should have the right to choose their own governments freely, unaffected by external pressure," said the final communique. In effect, this was an acceptance of the fact that, in the West's best judgment, Gomulkaism is the best the satellite peoples could hope for now-since it is perhaps the most the Russians presently dare accept...
...above his own political party. In other words, even with his epochal assist, the G.O.P. came perilously close to disaster. Ike is pledged to remake the Republican Party in the next four years, and his success in keeping the pledge may well decide its electoral future. He has powerful logic on his side: after 1956 it will be a foolhardy Republican who defies his wishes...
Whatever the logic of it, it makes a decidedly good show. Major Barbara is full of marvelous ideological eye-foolers and glittering intellectual pinwheels and dialectical tugs of war. Beyond that, Shaw has mingled bright drawing-room chatter with sharp cockney unpleasantries, thrown in here an amusing upper-clawss idiot, there a bellowing lower-class bully...
...male, and as far as intelligence is concerned, we are considered just as good and even better by learned men." Far from dismissing the letter, Representative T. James Tumulty of New Jersey said he would ask the Secretary of the Navy for advice. "There is," said he, "a certain logic in her stand, but there are also some practical difficulties to be considered...