Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also been urged to do his part as the member of an educated laity, devoted to serving the high priests in the temple of science. He had been abused for thinking that science and society were not dynamically interrelated, and then ridiculed for supposing that the connection had any logic whatsoever. A third suggestion then rudely imposed itself--that society might effect science. It was clear that the ultimate threshold of truth, the science of the meaning of science, was not to be crossed that night...
...File That Wasn't There. Absurdities to the civilian eye sometimes have a certain wild bureaucratic logic, such as the file in the basement called "the file of non-filed files"-a list of files that have been sent somewhere else. The Pentagon explains that it saves searching for a file that isn't there...
...delegate to the Republican Washington state conventions of '46 and '48, I feel compelled to say this: the Republican Party, as represented by Taft, Wiley, Smith, Hickenlooper, Cain, McCarthy, Martin, "Bertie" McCormick and Hearst, is on mighty thin ice. The weight of sound logic lies with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.N. and Truman...
...story turns on the 22-year-old unsolved murder of a famed movie director of the silent era.* Independent Producer Richard Conte determines to make a picture about the crime and, by the dime-novel logic that governs The Hollywood Story, decides he must solve it first. He rakes up old clues, gets shot at for his pains, goes staunchly on through a gallery of suspects: his business partner (Fred Clark), a onetime matinee idol (Paul Cavanaugh), a silent movie queen's daughter Julia Adams), a veteran scripter (Henry Hull...
...child needed a transfusion to live; but Labrenz and his wife refused to permit the transfusion; therefore, the child dies, though they "do not have control" of her life. Instead of each of them having a Bible in hand, one should have been studying an elementary text on logic...