Word: logical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shelley once asked, "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" That these words lack logic makes no difference; Shelley wrote them in an era when young men had a right to be far more gay and optimistic than they are in ours. But for years we have suspected that they are merely the careless lyricism of an exuberent soul. Indeed, for the past month we have entertained certain misgivings as to whether spring will come ata all this year...
...Manhattan garment mine, she heads for Central Park to have a daydream of grandeur. Wistfully she gazes at a big, empty billboard on Columbus Circle, imagining how her name would look there in 12-ft. letters: GLADYS GLOVER. What happens next is a hilarious example of dumb-blonde logic. Since her name would look wonderful on the sign, and since she has $1,000 in the bank, why not rent the sign and put her name on it? She does-and nothing happens. Then everything begins to happen at once. A dashing young soap millionaire (Peter Lawford) dashes after...
...appointed an assistant professor in 1948 and was made a full professor during the past year. His publications include a volume on the background of John Dewey's instrumentalism and a book entitled "Social Thought in America." He has contributed articles to various journals and magazines on logic, ethics, and related subjects...
...better organizer than speechmaker, got trapped in dialectic during an argument at a trade-union meeting. With a naturally glib tongue sharpened in many a workers' demonstration, a young woman Communist and ex-sewing-machine girl named Teresa Noce rushed into the breach and with crushing Marxist logic silenced Longo's opposition. Gratitude and love mingled in Longo's heart, and soon afterward the two were married...
Children, said Grahame, consider the adult world utterly whimsical, lacking in logic and common sense. It is populated and governed by a "strange, anemic order of beings" whose "movements [are] confined and slow," whose habits are "stereotyped and senseless." With "absolute license to indulge in the pleasures of life," e.g., to climb trees or dabble in ponds, they prefer to sit indoors...