Word: logics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's late famed Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead was far from the conventional absent-minded professor, but he did have occasional verbal lapses. One day he was cautioning a student about a theory of logic. "You must take it with a grain of er . . . um ... ah ..." For almost a minute, Whitehead groped for the word, until the student suggested. "Salt. Professor...
There followed a third group of still more serious offenses, and if the treasurer and logic had had their way, the fine for these acts might have been one pound. The Laws of 1734, however, decreed expulsion for such offenders...
...officers were unable to comprehend the students' governmental logic, but finally yielded and the seniors made their exam...
Unfortunately his work was plagued by lack of funds and the peculiar logic of a politically-motivated League. Since a refugee was the enemy of one state, a desire for international harmony led the League to regard him as the enemy of all. As a result the dislocated person was tolerated instead of helped, and the Refugee Commission never went beyond the symptoms to the cause...
There are other items in the charge, of course--just enough to invoke the Communist issue and thus justify, by the slick logic of the times, imputing the worst possible motives to Oppenheimer. Back in the thirties and early forties, he spoke with Communists and ex-Communists. He married someone who tasted Communism and spat it out. He joined and supported those organizations most vigorously opposed to Naziism, which to sensitive people then was as abhorrent as Communism is today. And so on. At the very worst, these were indiscretions. They are best explained by Oppenheimer himself as the result...