Word: logics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing about the book is how completely it fails to sell the position, especially when compared with the power of Beyond Personality, or Mere Christianity. His life becomes, as he says, a kind of chess match with deity, which of course loses, checkmated into Christianity, dragged by the internal logic of all he as ever done, into the fold. Whether it is freedom or necessity does not matter, but that it makes his position entirely individual becomes clear. The reader emerges with the feeling that "for that kind of man, conversion was a necessity, but his story has no bearing...
...Texas 17 newspaper publishers, polled (at the Texas Daily Newspaper Association meeting in Dallas) on whether Ike could carry Texas again, voted nine no, eight yes. Those who felt that Texas still likes Ike in spite of the gas bill veto advanced a homey piece of logic to back their argument: Texas still has more gas consumers than gas producers...
Smashed Idol. In Communist shop-logic, every affirmative has in it the seed of its own negative, and every zig its zag, so there were many experts to say that nothing had in fact changed. It was true that Russia's new masters had only reviled the old tyrant in order to perpetuate his tyranny. But there was a new face in Russia, and a new song on its lips. The old song of Stalin's was a menacing basso proclaiming a defiant people encircled by a hostile world; now a mellower baritone pleasingly rendered...
Blank Sense of Pain. Dreiser the secular tragedian lurched toward the apocalypse of revolution like a blind bear shambling to its cave. When he joined the Communist Party, he wrote William Z. Foster that it was the "logic of my life...
Friedberg, a pre-medical student, had never read any books on mathematical logic before last August. The solution grew out of his work on related questions in the general field of mathematical logic...