Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The action left Halton as director of the Aquinas Foundation, a Roman Catholic student organization, but canceled his privileges to use university facilities. The university's decision, insisted Goheen, "was not an issue of academic freedom." Said he: "Under claims of advancing the pursuit of truth, [Father Halton] has...
"If we look at the total human drama," said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, "we can find no conclusion within it but only the perplexing development of both good and evil possibilities. History most surely points beyond itself for the completion of its meanings and these completions can only be apprehended...
Quoting Lord Bryce. he said: "The law of nature represented to the Romans that which is conformable to reason, to the best side of human nature, to an elevated morality, to practical good sense, to general convenience. It is simple and rational, as opposed to that which is artificial or...
Giraudoux's style has some notable qualities. Amphitryon 38 is a farrago of dramatic styles. Giraudoux merges realism with history, legend with fantasy, and the lyrical with the intellectual and philosophical. His unique talent imbues the erudite classical and rational with the whimsical, imaginative and romantic--distilling a sparkling essence...
<¶After the Supreme Court decision reversing the contempt-of-Congress conviction of Union Organizer John Watkins for refusing to identify Communists he had known, an attorney for Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller observed that the Watkins decision "fits the [Miller] case like a glove." But in Washington last week...