Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refer to the undersigned or any other labor executive as a union boss," wrote Union Boss Lewis, "is a sneer. In logic, it would be equally sound to refer to a public official as the boss of the citizens ... To refer to the public trustee of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund [onetime Coal Mine Operator Josephine Roche], of eminent record, as a stooge of the undersigned is a contemptible insult, derogatory to the writer of your editorial. It exemplifies the innate philosophy of the Bourbon mind and the effeminate snobbishness of inbred aristocracy...
...Miguel de Unamuno was forever in trouble. A fiery liberal, he was once exiled by Primo de Rivera, accused Alfonso XIII of being "unfit" to govern, attacked the republic and the rebels in turn, was finally dismissed by Franco. Though passionately religious, he could find no proof in logic for the immortality of the soul, felt that the only thing man could do was to "spend your life so that you deserve to be immortal." To some segments of official Spain, Unamuno was a heretic...
Whether flexing its muscles or breathing sighs, Fan Fan is hilarious entertainment. Swiftly paced, with the indifference to order and logic of an Olsen and Johnson epic, this picture makes farce and slapstick seem like high comedy and arch satire. And most of the credit goes to the two stars...
...logic can only lead to the argument that the U.S. should not expect to export to other countries any more than it is willing to import from them . . . That is all that the "trade, not aid" contention is. DAVID G. PHILLIPS
...built beige Chrysler, and headed through the wahooing streets to the fair grounds. There, with a minimum of speechifying, Bob Thornton, 73, snipped a ribbon with a pair of diamond-studded shears and proclaimed the opening of the 1953 State Fair-the biggest in Texas and therefore, in Texan logic, the biggest in the world. Then, as the calliope tuned up and the first of more than two million fairgoers poured down the midway, Thornton turned sadly back to the city and the unfinished business of being mayor of Dallas...