Word: logical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian delegate concluded that elimination of the veto power, either in the Security Council or in the Atomic Energy Authority, would mean the end of the United Nations. With unanswerable logic, but again only within the limits of his own hypothetical alternatives, he pointed out the absurdity of majority rule in which the vote of Honduras is equal to that of the United States or the ballot of Haiti holds as much weight as that of the Society Union. Therefore, he said, the only possible hope for peace lay in Big Five unanimity...
...Alternatives. Were these, in fact, the only alternatives? Certainly there were serious proponents of another point of view, outside the limits of Wallace's peculiar brand of emotional logic. One of these proponents was the U.S. State Department. Byrnes's position is that war is not necessarily inevitable, even if the U.S. fails "to get along with Russia." In Byrnes's words it is the position of "patience as well as firmness." The potential reward is Russian respect for U.S. democracy, freedom of choice for the small nations and in some distant future, perhaps, the collapse...
...Monday, September 23rd, the CRIMSON republished an editorial entitled "Where the Elite Meet," an editorial unfortunate in its allegations, its logic, and its timing. One Wednesday morning a second editorial was reprinted, even more distorted. Those editorials are said to give "the student body" . . . many of the facts connected with the Council Constitution." It is time that a few of the false impressions created by these two pieces of writing, be corrected...
Whatever the evening's hostess may think of the accuracy (or propriety) of her guest's report, or citizens in general of Adamic's logic and tendency, Dinner at the White House is sprightly reading in parts. The old ban against quoting the President's most casual remarks without permission is now off in Franklin Roosevelt's case. The result is a kind of super-Winchellian account of White House gossip, undoubtedly the first of many. Sample: at dinner F.D.R. mentioned that ex-King Carol of Rumania wanted to come...
Charles Edward Garman, Amherst's frail 19th Century logician: "Garman taught . . . not the technique of logic, but the practical application of logical methods. . . . He was capable of making a false statement seem convincing, as a means to an end. This was extraordinarily stimulating; you never felt quite sure whether to accept what was said or not; you had to think...