Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another weak point in this letter is Mr. Landis' clarion for party regularity. Control of the Senate, he says, depends on three seats; sound foreign policy demands a Democratic Senate; vote Democratic. This bit of logic ignores an important fact: Lodge has voted with Democrats on foreign policy as often as Kennedy, and each foolish Lodge vote can be matched with a Kennedy blunder...
...Gandhi as the leader of passive resistance, which he believed the solution to many questions he was asked. He emphasized that he was not fully trained in all fields of pacifist thought, and maintained that part of the system must be taken on the belief itself, rather than logic...
...Your own logic applies just as much to the state government as to the federal government. You have announced your support of Mr. Herter for Governor. This should mean that, except in exceptional cases, you also support Republican candidates for the state legislature. I wish you would...
...England, the press was warmly hospitable to Chaplin. The Observer said: "Should American authorities really intend to revoke his permit . . . because of random imputations and not on the basis of judicial verdict, they would be acting . . . rather shabbily and with little sense of logic ... If the great comedian wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome...
...lean Liverpudlian, Tom Williamson, boss of the 800,000 General and Municipal Workers, pitched in with the counterattack: "All over Europe, people are scared-who by? Not by Britain or her Allies, but by the Soviet Union." Mineworkers' Leader Ernest Jones chipped in with rough-hewn Socialist logic: "If British miners were called upon to rearm in the interest of American capitalism and the Tory party, there'd be a devil of commotion . . . But . . . where freedom [is] at stake . . . the British miner [will be] in the last ditch of the struggle...