Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"You cannot legislate away discrimination," was the answer of Tech debaters Thomas Erber and David B. Kret. They based their point on the fact that discrimination is psychological, not openly rational.
"There is no other intelligence but rationality," continued Muelder, holding that man can be self-sufficient in a rational ethic. He decried intuitional revelations. "Non-rational factors, however, deserve our consideration," he maintained, praising the insight of great minds. Insight must still be respected."
A few injustices remain, however, but they are all possible to remedy. First the poetry room has been made inaccessible to all women. This is a blow not only to Radcliffe undergraduates but to the graduate students and to women visitors, who, for example, might want to hear the records...
. . . For starting the ball rolling in the direction of rational and statesmanlike /'politicking" (at home anyway) . . . our great ex-President, Herbert C. Hoover.
So far, the club has found a rational explanation for at least one mystery--the zombie. "We translated several old books," Liebman says, "and we have the answer. Zombles are just imbociles, gaunt because they're underfed. Cuban families get rid of them when they're born, and they just...