Word: logics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first move towards reform must be a change in the attitude of the Department to the skeleton in its closet. The qualities of poise and self-possession, of persuasion and logic and clear, quick thinking come from practice in public speaking, and in the long run the student will probably find them of more value than the history of the novel. English F should be bolstered by two regular half courses, one open to Freshmen in the primary tricks of speaking, and one to teach the advance principles. There is an ancient bogey that such courses would be "snaps", arising...
...tribute to Governor La Follette's integrity that he made public the letter of President Conant of Harvard University about the Frank case. But that letter sums up with deadly logic the most potent and most effective criticism of the entire incident: that it is open to question whether or not the present board of regents of the University of Wisconsin "has the capacity, competence and independence to make a judgment free from prejudice of a political or personal nature...
...only six years old, but she's a gay lady who ignores little boys. Now Teddy, he's oldish and a sober sides. But he's a liberal and wears a top hat. M does not believe in Santa Claus, and there's logic in what she says always. M appreciates classical beauty, but she and Teddy were ever so distressed and annoyed when they were held one year by the Italian border customs officials. Those sillies thought M and Teddy were smugglers, and filled with jewels. M was positively haughty and finally got their release...
...grim situation in the play was that Mio, learning the identity of the murderer through his conversation with Trock, was himself murdered by Trock's trigger men before he could take the truth outside the shadows of the bridge. The picture, inspired more, it appears, by valid dramatic logic than by the Hays organization edict that Justice always triumphs on the screen, arranges a totally different conclusion. In it, after he has killed Shadow and Garth, Trock is shot dead by one of his own henchmen. Mio, apparently doomed to die in the trap they have set, finds...
...Zurich. I was there with my twelve children when Tzara pronounced for the first time this word, which aroused a legitimate enthusiasm in all of us." (Later Dadaist Richard Huelsenbeck claimed: ". . . it was I who pronounced the word dada [hobbyhorse] for the first time.") In moments of harmony and logic which they affected to despise, dadaists admitted that their object was "to spit in the eye of the world...