Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense that the bill was now virtually gutted of all logic, he was dead right. In rushed Missouri's Dewey Short to make the most of the opportunity. "Mr. Chairman," said Short, "we have just witnessed a complete somersault, a total handspring and an absolute about-face . . . We were told all during the hearings, by the proponents of this measure, that we must get U.M.T. started now in order to be able to build up this reserve, and as we built up this reserve gradually, then we would reduce gradually the number in the active service under the draft...
...French sickness, of course, is deeper than that. Yet the old paradoxes remain: of a land fat and bankrupt; of a nation full of courageous individuals but collectively hesitant and despairing; of a nation famed for political logic and skill yet paralyzed by political anarchy...
Herbert is a logical man. He holds to logic as a drowning man clings to a paper straw. He would have liked to join the navy, the most logical and four-square of professions, if his father had not entered him for Winchester, with an equally austere and monastic tradition...
...This is logic, but it is Anglo-Irish logic. Herbert's family come from Muckross. The Herbert argument may be found in Shaw and Joyce. It may be heard in any Irish bar. The man who said, "Nobody has any sense in this world unless he hasn't and he's a fool too" was using such logic. He had just been burnt out, with apologies, by his devoted tenants...
Despite the dubious logic behind it, this ruling should have a salutary effect on the proceedings of many House committees. In the past, the everpresent snouts of a dozen or so TV cameras have diverted many committee members from their main task: fact-finding. Knowing that several million people are watching them, these representatives have felt it necessary to prove their opposition to Communism, influence peddling, and tax frauds again and again. Telecasts give them a chance to get their names and faces before the public, and their concern for making a good impression has overridden their interest in impartial...