Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of discussing the charges against him (e.g., had he deliberately lied during his attacks on the State Department?), McCarthy quickly confused the debate with his usual oratorical dust storm. He had "no confidence" in the subcommittee, he said, but he added with wondrous logic that it ought to continue its work as a matter of principle. Then, as usual, he counterattacked: he challenged the Senate to order a similar investigation of his favorite enemy, Senator William Benton, the "odd little mental midget" from Connecticut, whose charges originally prompted the Senate to investigate McCarthy...
...does not put down a dollar deposit, he will be listed as having no interest in the ROTC program and this fact will be detrimental to his being accepted into the Advanced Course. This was the tip-off straight from the Commanding Officer. This situation shows poor psychology and logic on the part of the Air Science department. Students are actually being forced to attend the dance or at least to pay for a ticket. The detachment is only a small part of the AROTC reserve organization under the Continental Air Command. If a Harvard Cadet does not know...
MICHAEL SCOTT is a clergyman of the Church of England. He is a man who has tried to "be absolutely logical about being a Christian, and to carry the logic into public life and politics. He has tried to practice such uncomfortable texts as "Thou shalt love thy neighbor." In doing so he has found himself in a position where many sincere men regard him as a mischievous crank, a self-advertising fanatic and an easy tool for Communists. Many other men regard him as their only effective friend in politics, as a man who intends to do good...
...Report's logic, then, is none too consistent. But even if it were perfect, we could not support the Council's predilection for a two-course requirement. Though the opinions of student are crucial for constructing a G.E. efficiency chart, they are not relevant to setting the standards that characterize the Harvard education. Perhaps students do dislike General Education, and perhaps they dislike exams, theses and the rigours of their courses, too but no one will say that their reaching should modify these things...
...secret. But the play thereafter cannot evoke its meaning through its mood, or even sustain its mood. It becomes a half-farcical, half-melodramatic vaudeville, and its people finally go home less changed themselves than as though changes of character awaited them there. There is less a failure of logic than of magic, which is the more pronounced since the production-in Virgil Thomson's atmospheric music and Cecil Beaton's almost oppressively charming sets-so much stresses the fairy-tale note...