Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot understand how any writer can say that a nun's life is a normal and natural vocation . . . Celibacy, flagellation and corporal penances, as practiced by the Carmelites, took place during the Dark Ages of history . . . Whether one believes in Mother Nature, the process of evolution, or God, logic tells us that our purpose in life is not to castigate . . . and punish ourselves in order to attain a state of being outside the realm of man's experience, but to live according to the times with healthy outlooks both of clear mind and sound body...
Student interest, at Harvard, often determines the educational bill-of-fare. But if the Faculty responded to student apathy in elementary languages, required German, French, or Spanish courses would long have gone the way of compulsory Rhetoric, Logic, and Semantics. Yet the language requirements remain to blight the freshman year, because the Faculty rates highly the value of language well-taught--although the College has consistently failed to take steps to bring good language teaching to Harvard. The apathy of student and teacher alike spoils the value of the courses. Since the course seem sure to remain, the apathy deserves...
...refocus it clearly, within the logic of its own time, Author de Santillana has written The Crime of Galileo, a masterly intellectual whodunit which traces not the life but the mental footsteps of Galileo on his road to personal tragedy. Brilliant, but rarefied, the book will appeal especially to those who like to watch a drama of ideas played out against the baroque backdrop of 17th century Italian intrigue...
Apparently overcome with the logic of a Yale Daily News editorial advocating a one hundred percent inheritance tax, an Eli senior has renounced a $350,000 legacy left to him by his father...
...decisions. The Corsi controversy recalls the Republican campaign in 1952, when President Eisenhower urged the revision of the McCarran-Walter Act. Surely the entire Republican Party has not suffered a collective attack of amnesia on the subject of immigration. And one wonders how far Secretary Dulles will carry the logic of his bipartisan position. Not only Corsi, but Dulles himself has been the object of considerable Congressional criticism recently. Will the Secretary now offer his own resignation to promote Congressional harmony...