Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cruel ritual of Soviet propaganda executions, it did not matter that Lavrenty Beria, a party official in Georgia at the time Ordzhonikidze was commissar, probably had nothing to do with his murder. The logic, so far as Russia's present rulers were concerned, was the need to keep Beria's name before the people as the man responsible for the reckless Ezhovshchina. The West could only guess what pressures inside the Soviet Union made this still necessary, 18 years later, unless it was the identity of the real murderer...
Unfortunately, neither Bar-Hillel nor Gode are linguists in the same sense as Whatmough. And when Gode gives a more detailed analysis of Interlingua, he cannot really challenge Whatmough's logic...
This year there were more optimists in the Crimson camp than in any other recent year. Their logic was completely understandable--with victories over good Princeton and Yale teams and a tie against a strong Brown eleven in November last year there was no reason to suppose that a squad composed of the same backs and a strong line led by All-American candidate Bill Meigs would not win the Ivy League title. The experts all picked Yale and Cornell, but the Harvard man winked when the same experts said the Crimson was the "dark horse" of the league...
...matter what the subject, Old Iron-bottom was not as nimble as he used to be. In the past, he could always cover up his defeats in his false-premise logic and steal the headlines by explosive charges of warmongering. Last week he seemed sadly hampered by the new rules imposed by the Spirit of Geneva. The relaxation it had produced in Europe was serving the Kremlin well, and Molotov was apparently under strict orders not to spoil this pleasant atmosphere...
...intellectual Manhattan of the '303 when all roads seemed to lead to Moscow. She marched in May Day parades "for fun." As a "romantic desperado . . . like all truly intellectual women" (her own phrase), Mary McCarthy found Trotsky her meat. Trotsky saved her from Stalin; when her Irish logic argued that the Great Heretic should be given a fair shake in the jurisprudence of the revolution, she found herself cold-shouldered by her Stalinist friends with whom she had drunk gin for Republican Spain. She, in turn, has cold-shouldered them ever since...