Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important because it works with some facts that other pictures have preferred to ignore. One is that Negroes, like whites, may react to persecution with lead pipes instead of neuroses. Another is that race riots have their own logic, that discrimination is not merely a habit of thought or a result of faulty reasoning. Finally, men fighting for life cannot be exhorted or "educated" to a peaceful adjustment. "Ain't it a lot," says the leader of the colored gang, "asking us to be better than they are, when we get killed trying to be as good...
...root of the problem seems to be whether centuries should be calculated absolutely on a mathematical basis or whether concessions to logic should be made to usage. If logic is enforced, the mid-century won't be until 1951 because since there is no year zero, a year wasn't up until the year two began...
...would say I think Across the River and into the Trees stinks except I did not write Men Without Women and The Sun Also Rises and therefore, by Mr. Faulkner's logic, I have nothing to stand on while I throw such a spitball. Would a few well-placed spitballs have saved Hemingway from the pitfall of delusion wherein he has knocked out Flaubert and others? If Hemingway does not need defending, as Mr. Faulkner asserts, why did Mr. Waugh and Mr. Faulkner bother? Is it that they are trusting to be his seconds when he gets into...
...busy on a U.S. lecture tour, white-thatched, thrice-married Philosopher Russell was cited for his "many-sided and significant writings, in which he appeared as a champion of humanity and freedom of thought." Russell's most important work, in mathematics and logic, was finished 40 years ago. Since then he has written, sometimes wisely but too much, on morals, politics, China, marriage, atoms, bolshevism and world government. In 1940 a New York court revoked his professorship at New York's City College because he advocated trial marriage for students. When a reporter asked him last week...
Having decided in 1942 that horse cavalry was obsolete, the U.S. Army in due course applied the inexorable logic of its decision to its military riding teams: after the 1948 Olympics they were disbanded. That left the U.S. without any trained riding teams to enter in international jumping competitions, so for two seasons, U.S. riders watched cavalry teams from Mexico, Britain, France, Ireland, Chile and Canada jump off with all the prizes at the U.S.'s own National Horse Show. This year the International Equestrian Federation came to the rescue by ruling that civilians are just as eligible...