Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freedom ironically termed it--has been charged on every hand with turning reactionary and with limiting academic freedom. After all, Mr. Greene could have expected no other effect when he made his decision. Most of his critics are too earnest in their bias to see the true nature and logic of the case...
...doubtful for many students. Similarly, we may have been over-eager to link up points which we consider connected but which in the popular mind are dissociated. Objection to connecting the Good Neighbor policy with settlement of the oil dispute with Mexico may be vulnerable on these grounds. Thus, logic combined with brevity has unwittingly made some of the questions appear prejudiced...
When the Red Army marched into Poland in late September many purists in international conduct thought that, since Britain had guaranteed Polish territorial integrity, in all logic Great Britain should immediately declare war against the U. S. S. R. Instead, pragmatic British statesmen quickly explained that the British Government's Polish guarantee applied only to German aggression and not to a Russian invasion. Winston Churchill even argued that what Comrade Stalin had done "was clearly necessary for the safety of Russia." And Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain indirectly approved of the First Lord's argument by conceding...
...onetime Tackle Ham Fish, who represents in Harvard football history what the late Big Bill Edwards did in Princeton's, the day is lost that brings no new scrimmage, no fresh fray into which he can charge with windmilling arms, roof-raising voice and not-quite legal logic...
Several notable examples of clear speech about the war by leaders of thought in this country are deplored in a recent editorial. With as much logic as grace you suggest one speaker as evil because you infer his association with material wealth, but seem even more at loss to explain the attitude of others whose riches lie in the field of learning. These clear voices, however, disclose nothing but the wish to advise the inexperienced and heedless concerning the facts of life. The educated freeman has a deep interest in opposing the contraction of the area where thought is free...