Word: logical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...construction gang but were turned down ("From what I've seen I should almost die of monotony"). So last week they offered him a "safe conduct" if he would meet them on a street-corner to debate his charges. Dodds went, encountered storms of abuse but not much logic. "You really ought to be in a circus and not a Labor M.P.," shouted one. "What was I doing?" demanded another. "You kept the flies off the tea," said Dodds imperturbably. Dodds refused their pleas to apologize. "You cannot talk me out of what...
...some sense a protest against war, the play is much more a lament for war's seeming inevitability. Like all masters of humane irony, all practitioners of philosophic high comedy, Giraudoux pierces to a tragic fundamental, to a world never long enough governed by logic, or spurred on by truth, or saved by virtue. His own dazzling speeches, moreover, ram home how inflammatory or mendacious words...
...various solutions. High on their list, of course, is the standard reaction of throwing both hands up into the air and declaring--with a disgusted sigh--that one of these days the University will have to restrict undergraduate cars. This point of view, though it has a certain mathematical logic, is simply unacceptable to most members of the University. A hands-off policy toward student cars has long symbolized Harvard's desire to treat its students as adults, and no one wants to see this policy abandoned merely because of a little parking trouble...
...performances of both tailbacks supported his logic. Alternating throughout the game, Botsford averaged 8.5 yards in 11 carries and Joslin 9.8 in 10 tries...
...talked almost like a man with something to apologize for. "Take into consideration that the Soviet Union covers one-sixth of the earth's surface . . ." he said. "The conference was overshadowed by the memories of the last war.* It was not like other conferences. Passions, not rule of logic, played the predominant role . . . The hospitality at official functions bore no relation to the atmosphere at negotiations. The hospitality was hearty. The negotiations were mordant . . . We, I believe, did right...