Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter to The Crimson of May 10, 1974, Mr. P.S. Hogness perverts logic to show that an Air Force doctor is really destroying human lives and not saying them. I wish to point out that a doctor always heals--he has pledged to do this whether in a civilian or military situation. It is no "accidental by-product" then that doctors in the military save lives. It is their duty...
...flaw in that kind of logic is that it doesn't take into account what shareholder resolutions actually do. It's safe to say that none of the resolutions Harvard voted on this spring has even a slight chance of actually getting the approval of stockholders owning a majority of the shares in any of the corporations involved. The people and foundations who propose shareholder resolutions are aiming instead at getting 3 per cent of a corporation's shares on their side, so that they can propose the resolution again the next year. The idea behind shareholder resolutions, unless...
...puffs of mirth. The latest display of his intellectual curiosity, verbal agility and quirky sense of humor is Jumpers (TIME, March 11), a comedy currently on view at Manhattan's Billy Rose Theater. Jumpers is a philosophical roller coaster careering dizzyingly along the parallel tracks of wit and logic over such subjects as the existence or nonexistence of God, the nature of good and evil, and the interdependence of ethics and metaphysics...
...University will have its sports complex because the prevailing logic, as heard around the locker room and read in national sports magazines, is that Harvard, being the richest university in the world, should no doubt also have the finest sports facilities...
...Australia Fair is now the official tune, some sour Australians would just as soon whistle Dixie. The Women's Electoral Lobby, a liberationist group, objected to the male chauvinism of the opening line: "Australia's sons, let us rejoice." Other complainers pointed out with obstinate but irrefutable logic that God Save the Queen was almost anti-British in comparison with the obsequious lyrics of Advance Australia Fair, which was written and composed by an emigrant Scottish carpenter around 1878. Sample lyrics...