Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosevelt is wholly emotional and not in the least rational." Tony Galento: "Roosevelt will beat this Willkie just as bad as I'll beat Joe Louis the next time I catch up with the bum." William S. Knudsen (when asked whom he would vote for): "Go jump in the...
» Descartes's rationalism made reason self-sufficient, cut man loose from intuitive, supra-rational truth.
"Modern civilization." explains Maritain, "pays dearly today for the past." Marx, Nietzsche, Freud have "unmasked" the rational, optimistic bourgeois citizen. Social disorders threaten to engulf him, mocking his errant faith in Progress and Enlightenment.
No one could prove to him that a campaign is something both less and more than a debate, that the 45,000,000 voters, feel, as well as think, and that a crusade is perhaps not compounded of rational ideas. In 1932 Herbert Hoover told a Nevada audience on the...
Portrayal of the 1880 cowpuncher as a rational being gives the book a fresh touch, though by so doing, Mr. Clark runs a grave risk in departing from the conventional forms. The Old Guard, accustomed to a tradition of cowboys who were morons with all their brains in their trigger...