Word: logically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard Koussevitzky's version last Saturday night at Symphony Hall, you listened to a performance clipped and almost terse, which bound together the loose ends of Tchaikowski's orchestration and made the entire symphony an unforgettably dramatic thing. Stokowski's prettifying turns a symphony, with its connotations of logic and coherence, into a series of lush effects. Only the most straightforward kind of treatment can bring out half the greatness in a Tchaikowski symphony, the balance and the color and the drama, and the clarity of motion, which make Brahms's symphonies sound like academic exercises...
...freedom of speech, but the power of the Corporation to appoint as lecturers whatever scholars it chooses. Bertrand Russell was not chosen because Harvard wishes to give freedom of speech to "eccentric ideas" about domestic relations. He was selected because he is a foremost scholar in the field of logic. He is not to lecture on the relations between male and female but on the relations between logic and language...
...independent body to appoint men they believe are specially qualified for certain jobs. They point out that the William James Lectureship calls for "eminent scholars not connected with Harvard University." Dr. Russell, they add, is a "mathematician and philosopher of recognized eminence," and will lecture here on mathematics, logic, and language...
...right to let Dr. Russell's lectures undermine Harvard's morals. Harvard men who want to be corrupted can easily find Earl Russell's books on marriage and morals in Widener Library. But the Corporation sticks to its point that the famous Briton is eminently fitted to lecture on logic and language. If Mr. Dorgan is worried, he might much more profitable train his guns on Philosophy B, which annually indoctrinates more than 200 innocent undergraduates with the dangerous and subversive tenets of Russell's "Introduction to Philosophy...
...choice of sending ships and planes to Europe now or possibly having to fight Germany in our waters in the distant future, the interventionists have drawn a bad hand. It would be comforting to believe that the gentlemen of the Tribune were vulnerable to the charge of faulty logic rather than that of insidious intent...