Word: logical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criticism as he is in the quiet of his own home. He can hardly make a move without provoking tantrums in some political sector, where worry springs eternal that something he does will cost votes. Nevertheless, he has earned a reputation for disarming his most vehement critics with quiet logic, unfailing good humor. His formula: "When I get involved in a controversy, I don't care whether the people on the other side are s.o.b.s. What mat ters is what they stand...
...Kinsey studies raised moral questions-because of Kinsey's very insistence that he had nothing to do with moral questions, a concept he refused to acknowledge in any case. To Kinsey anything was "biologically normal" that is done by a sizable number of people-or animals. By that logic almost nothing could be called abnormal. The notion fitted in with other thinkers' concept of quantitative morality, i.e., right and wrong are not fixed values but mere fluctuating curves on a statistical graph. Thus "The Kinsey Report" became at once a radio comedian's joke and a hard...
...issue. No human or divine law can give Turkey's totalitarian-minded Adnan Menderes the prerogative to object on grounds of security to self-determination rights being granted to 400,000 people living on an island more than 40 miles off Turkish shores. By the same, strange logic, suggestive of Adolf Hitler's Lebensraum dogma, France should object to the geographical proximity of the British Isles and the U.S.S.R. to Turkish sovereignty over the Dardanelles...
...Everyone, including the canon, knows that the nuns did skip over fires on Midsummer Eve, but this is nothing to the big fact that no Englishman -and a writer at that - can "put down" an Irish priest in his own parish. The Englishman, of course, cannot see the logic of this, and takes the unreasonable attitude that his own good name is at stake; he will not let the London newspaper pay off. The case sets all Ireland roaring. Resolutions are passed. Committees are formed. Processions are staged. Anonymous letters flood the mails and editorial columns...
...Lancaster, Pa. newspaper publisher and herself a onetime reporter, has a newsman's respect for history-even a shadowy saga of 30 centuries ago. In 14 years of patient writing (this is her third novel in 28 years), she has constructed her oppressive story with fidelity and compelling logic. The strength of the book lies in her imaginative but firm characterization of the soldiers, seers and courtiers who were enmeshed in Saul's downfall. But above them all towers brooding Saul, a complex, courageous, often noble man, whose tragic flaw carries him ineluctably through doubt and guilt...