Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since "Ring Round the Moon" was written by the distinguished French playwright Jean Anouilh and translated by the distinguished English playwright Christopher Fry, it is only logical to suppose that it would be a completely satisfying play. The theatre, however, often peversely delights in confounding logic. "Ring Round the Moon" has more brilliant scenes, wittier dialogue, and greater thought than most plays, but there is something lacking...
Russell, who is an Earl in his native England, is known as one of the chief formulators and disseminators of mathematical logic. He was co-author with Alfred North Whitehead of "Principia Mathematica," and modern logical positivism is largely based upon his work...
...looked feeble, and gossip spread that he couldn't handle his work. His aides knew better: the spare, grey-thatched, droop-mustached old man was a stern and shrewd martinet, who could lay about him with a shaking crooked finger and a devastating logic. George Catlett Marshall, who inspired some of the same kind of respect, jumped when Stimson beckoned...
Unconnected Logic. The Worker had good reason to crow. Though Salisbury's dispatches were supposed to be a factual report on economic progress in the Soviet Union, Salisbury used what facts he had to draw some remarkably naive conclusions. For example, he said that "foreigners long resident in Moscow" took the "cleaning, painting and construction" going on in Moscow as a sign that Russia was not expecting atomic bombs would soon be falling on Soviet territory. He interpreted "a steady increase in the quantity of pots and pans, copper and brass samovars" as evidence that "the Kremlin does...
...Blundering" British. In Napoleon's view, of course, it was the "logic" of France's condition, not his own ambition, that made him a dictator. "Lamentable weakness" on the part of their rulers had filled Frenchmen with such profound "uneasiness" that they inevitably picked him as the man who could "save [society] from destruction." The best chapter in the Memoirs is devoted to the cunning, diplomacy and brute force employed by Napoleon in making quite sure that the inevitable occurred...