Word: logical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From an idealistic point of view it seems apparent that most of the motivating factors that precipitated the 1943 action have disappeared. On the other hand there is equally little doubt about the permanence of the logic of the 1934 decision, in its call for student maturity and independence and elimination of wasteful clerical processes--theories backed strongly at the time by the Council and other College groups...
...Timetable. The news was good enough to impress even hardboiled Capitol newsmen. Vandenberg's logic and persuasion, plus the force of public opinion,* had brought ERP to the point of Senate debate unbruised by its first big test. Chairman Vandenberg deserved the congratulations which the newsmen showered down...
...most important and the most terrible in the Marxist brood are those who inherited the cold, disciplined logic necessary for the serious pursuit of power. Their leader is the late Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. When the Russian people, without his help, snatched at democracy, he snatched it away from them. Like Father Marx, he knew what was best. He organized riots (see cut) that weakened and, finally, a coup that overpowered the Kerensky government. He organized, as Marx had taught, a dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., a disciplined little gang of power monopolists...
...Secretary Frank Knox "a man of robust integrity without any trace of pettiness," he could not say the same for the Navy as a whole. The whole trouble, he summed up acidly, was "the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true Church...
Phillips Brooks House reopened its textbook library, where 25 cents will rent anything from "Frau Sorge" to "Symbolic Logic." The books, all second-hand, are housed on the third floor...