Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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... I would say that any antagonism toward the U.S. by the man in the street in England is emotional rather than rational, e.g., "Let them start the next war, and we'll come in two or three years later, after we've made a pile selling them stuff...
¶The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts displayed a looming mural (18 ft. by 10 ft.) by Mexican Artist Rufino Tamayo (commissioned last year in the hope that it would help eliminate anti-Mexican prejudice in Texas). Titled El Hombre, the mural shows a monolithic, foreshortened giant, his back to...
Few things have over disturbed me quite so much as the thoughtless, senseless and stupid action of the Student Council's Combined Charities Committee in removing the Salzburg Seminar from the list of Harvard-supported charities. But I have derived what consolation I might from the assumption that this ill...
"For President Eliot, the enemies to his true faith were churches, creeds, priests, anything supernatural, any concern for a life after death, anything that professed to be sacramental. I suspect, for example -though I do not know this-that he would have considered the doctrine central to generations of believers...
The editorial lauded the President for "turning his back on the 'wisdom' of President Eliot" who had in 1909 called for a rational faith without metaphysical rites. Pusey's statement Wednesday had been that "He (Eliot) was wrong . . . in urging his generation to get rid of what he called 'paganized...