Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief chapters by the author herself extolling the Columbian World's Fair of 1893, objecting to French moderns, primitive art and such isms as cubism and surrealism. Says she: "Sanity in Art means soundness, rationalism, a correct integration of the art work itself in accordance with some internal logic. We know sanity is often difficult to define, and we also know insanity is often apparent at a glance. ... I have been called an iconoclast, and indeed I am one, in that...
...past arguments last Tuesday night, President Roosevelt continued his game of political hopscotch, blithely hopping over the squares in which the enemy counters were lying, but trying to give the impression of having touched on them in flight. It was a pretty demonstration of mental agility, but as logic it just can't keep its balance...
...acquainted with it, is another development of the old woman's-intuition-to-decide-a-woman's-fate attitude taken by American juries, and makes use of the usual Moore antics to prove that the jury decided a cause upon anything except the evidence. Unfortunately for the logic of the burlesque, the jury decides right, the true murderer is discovered because Victor Moore, as Mr. Beaver, is able to prove that no man can get upstairs, get undressed, take a shower, and get into his pajamas, all in six minutes and a half. In spite of the paucity...
Hugh S. Johnson wrote last week: "In logic and law there is no answer [to the President's proposal]. But Congress has been snowed under with objections mostly in error about what the proposal really means. Why? Because it took a crack at Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes and because it was too damned slick...
...Lazare wrote a commentary on Spinoza's Ethics, translated Descartes' Meditations from Latin into Russian. He was still in his teens when he studied abstruse mathematical logic and published attacks on non-Euclidean geometers. Meantime he was playing music on the side, making up little songs and waltzes for his cousins...