Word: logician
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...Earl Russell, now 94, presents a psychological conundrum of a similar order. Renowned mathematician, logician, philosopher and Nobel prizewinner, he writes English with all the precision and lucidity of which the language is capable. Yet for all its clarity and wit, the first volume, instantly acclaimed in England as a classic, leaves unresolved problems of character. To some, he is a crypto-mystic, to others, a heartless brain. Most recently he has become an excessively emotional organizer of peace marches who mouths anti-American propaganda drivel...
...occasionally criticized, of course, on matters of style and policy. Monro's habit of thinking out loud often gave his conversation the appearance of false starts and long windedness. He is not a scholar or logician. His style is to punch ideas around, not cut them apart. He was often his most severe critic, admitting mistakes readily--as, for example, on his decision to release class ranks to draft boards without consulting students. But he was not often wrong, and he won the respect of Faculty as well as students...
...interrogation scene could have been lifted directly from a macabre novel by Abram Tertz. In a grim government building off Pushkin Square, two Russian plainclothesmen pounded away at their prisoner with 2½ hours of questions. Why, they asked, had the young logician from the Academy of Sciences been carrying a poster that read "Respect the Soviet Constitution"? Replied the prisoner: "Is it wrong to demand respect for the constitution?" Next question: "Are you directing your demand at the Soviet rulers?" Answer: "That is your suggestion. If you feel they need this advice, let them have...
...many ways, Adlai Stevenson. No man of prominence in America represents the Stevenson tradition more faithfully than Senator Fulbright. He speaks out infrequently, and when he does, it appears to pain him greatly. He chooses his phrases carefully, balancing and moderating his assertions as would a conscientious logician. A politician in name only, he seems more the lonely statesman, agonizing over his place in history...
...Harvard logician might figure that the Crimson should murder the Eagles by some 11 goals. After all, Harvard whipped Toronto 4-1 during the recent Boston Garden Hockey Festival, while Toronto smashed...