Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what Lampy lacks in humor, he makes up in value judgment. In the "Movie Worsts" section, all selections merit their titles. The choice of Jerry Lewis as the "Worst Comedian of All Time" shows indisputable logic. Undeniable also is the "Most Unattractive Connation" of "She's Working Her Way Through College." The only slight revision I would make is to put "Million Dollar Mermaid" in a class by itself. Buried in the "Ten Worst," the film unjustly loses some of its awfulness...
Like all Adlerians, Dreikurs & Co. brush past the Freudian patter of hostility and rejection, Oedipus and Narcissus, and drive straight for the child's "private logic." Their argument: no matter how wacky the child's actions may seem to an adult, they are logical to the child if it is recognized that his own picture of the world around him governs his reactions. So the trick is to find out how he sees the world, how this makes him do what he does, and help him to feel secure without setting the rest of the family on edge...
Congressmen should not let the yappings of the economy bloc halt this Indian investment. If anything, it should be increased. Some have said that both logic and the requisites of a bipartisan foreign policy dictate Bowles' retention as advisor to the program he has sponsored. But his popularity in India is so great his presence there might detract from Allen's effectiveness. The Eisenhower administration must allow the new Ambassador to continue Bowles' program if they hope to check the sudden backsliding in Indo-American relations...
...also to insure that Formosa should not be used as a base of operations [by the Chinese Nationalists] against the Chinese Communist mainland. This has meant, in effect, that the U.S. Navy was required to serve as a defensive arm of Communist China ... There is no longer any logic or sense in a condition that required the U.S. Navy to assume defensive responsibilities on behalf of the Chinese Communists. This permitted those Communists, with greater impunity, to kill our soldiers and those of our United Nations allies in Korea...
...Letting logic and wit decide...