Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The different agencies, whose overlapping functions FORTUNE charts in detail, are supposed to gear together the country's armed effort with its industrial capacity; they are not succeeding. There is no forceful high War Policy Board. There are innumerable agencies at the same level of authority. There is no...
Smuggled out of Germany by ways & means which émigré Editor Curt Riess will not disclose, the diary has been deciphered (Leske sometimes wrote German shorthand); translated into rational language (Leske wrote a febrile Nazi slang); the entries dated, edited and rearranged. If, as Editor Riess (who knew Leske...
Like Freud, he helped destroy the 18th-and 19th-Century illusion that man is a rational creature. Like William Graham Sumner (Folkways), he disturbed civilization by disclosing the relativity of morals.
Perry Miller, associate professor of History and Literature, expressed the belief that stereotyped schools of thought spring up immediately after events, and cited five definite theories on Hess's flight which encompass almost every rational idea of the motive of the No. 3 Nazi. These theories, he said, have changed...
Sometimes their subject was the universe. Wrote Holmes: "My formula as a bettabilitarian (one who thinks you can bet about it but not know) is a spontaneity taking an irrational pleasure in a moment of rational sequence. . . . Functioning is all there is. ... I wonder if cosmically an idea is any...