Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laffing Room Only (book by Olsen & Johnson and Eugene Conrad; music & lyrics by Burton Lane; produced by the Messrs. Shubert and Olsen & Johnson), considering that its father was Sons o' Fun and its grandfather Hellzapoppin, is a little on the rational side. It has the family tic-love of...
Yet the guest speaker pointed to flaws in both positions. Examining the Hutchins, or scholastic school, he found that it became "authoritarian, bookish," and, in addition, "fell in love with its own perfection." On the other hand, he called the scientific or modern method, "anti-rational," "unreflective." "We have science...
This science, Professor Demos stressed, "proves everything except its own dogmas. We have a series of unrelated specialties, but we lack the grand plan. The true philosopher," added Professor Demos, "will include both the rational and empirical in his reasoning." In summary, he concluded that "an education should be both...
Yet when we found him his physical condition was strong, and his mind as calm and rational as though he were sitting in a London club. He was in agony, yet in his correct Oxford accent he even apologized for taking up our time to get him out.
Britain's sage Manchester Guardian commented: "The fuss in the U.S. is a warning to everybody that a great many Americans will not be in a rational or reasonable state of mind until the November election is over-if even then. Had an American public figure been credited with...