Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hesitated to put politics first and America last . . . Eisenhower, Bricker, Dulles, Nixon-the whole lot of them-were shameless demagogues in 1952. They exploited the hardships and the losses of the Korean War as President Truman's private 'police action,' undertaken, by some strange quirk of logic, because Secretary Acheson was 'soft' on Communism . . . Then, as we all know, the Eisenhower Administration proceeded to make a peace in Korea on terms for which a Republican Congress would have undertaken the impeachment of Harry Truman...
...Catholic University of the Sacred Heart flatly denies the possibility of extraterrestrial life: the Scripture makes no mention of it. Says he: "If God had created other men on other planets, these men would not be derived from Adam, and one would not be able to understand the logic of the divine plan of man's salvation ... To admit that the divine plan of salvation is illogical is the same as not recognizing the infinite wisdom of God. It is fantastic to suppose that God would place such men on other planets. Remember that the world was created...
...already demolished some notable false limits on the durability of man's mind and body. He has proved that if pilots are carefully strapped into beefed-up seats and cockpits they can walk away from a large majority of crackups. He has presented his proof with argument-killing logic: his own roaring rides. Having established the practical limits of human tolerance to g forces,† he is getting ready to prove his carefully calculated theory that a jet pilot can stand the wind blast of a bail-out at Mach 3 at 40,000 ft. (about 2,000 m.p.h...
Stravinsky: Symphony No. 1, Op. 1 (Vienna Orchestral Society conducted by F. Charles Adler; Unicorn). A totally uncharacteristic work by the century's most notorious modernist. This beginner's work contains the material of Tchaikovsky without his melodic gift, the orchestration of Rimsky-Korsakov without his logic, the structure of Brahms in all his squareness. A good joke...
...Single Artificer. What Stevens loved to sing of was order, by which he did did not mean tradition, which he knew and loved, or law, which he also knew and loved, but a meaning of order that is precedent totradition, law l and perhaps even logic. In one of his greatest poems, The Idea of Order at Key West, he wrote : If it was only the dark voice of the sea That rose, or even colored by many -waves ; If it was only the outer voice of sky And cloud, of the sunken coral water-walled, However clear, it would...