Word: logical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swiftly confirming Secretary of State Christian Herter, the Senate acted with flawless logic: delay and quibbling might damage Herter's effectiveness as Secretary and thus damage the U.S. too. With a savage lack of the same logic, some Democratic Senators have dawdled with other presidential appointments far beyond the point of legitimate fact-finding-at the risk of damaging the appointee's effectiveness. Classic case: the President's nomination of Lewis Strauss, onetime (1953-58) Atomic Energy Commission chairman, to be Secretary of Commerce...
Barzun takes a proud position as defender of a castle called Intellect, which is being attacked while "the dissemination of its products has become a planetary frenzy." Barzun's House of Intellect is an austere conception, of which the unfashionable practices of logic, authority, discipline and learning are the pillars. The enemies of the house that Jacques built are three popular idols-art, science, and something he calls philanthropy...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald MacLeish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...
...logic was well taken that described the drift of a student representative from the stage of realizing his fellows' indifference toward his service to that of irresponsible, self-centered action. Yet I wonder whether this reasoning was not carried too far and applied too broadly. To say that the responsible representative is a rare bird takes too little account, I think, of several important factors: First, there is no single group of "representatives;" a student who leads in one activity follows in most of the rest, and so never loses the sense of membership in the community. Secondly, and more...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald Mac-Leish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...