Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patient X remained seriously disturbed until about 1927. Since then she has fed herself and given no trouble, but has hardly spoken. Never rational enough to do any chores, she has spent most of her time rocking in a chair.
Is Whittaker Chambers' concept of God becoming a new criterion for good Americanism ? God forbid! There's a peculiar tide running here. It includes such divergent figures as Niebuhr, Buckley (of Yale) and Billy Graham. It puts the Spirit of God and the mind of man in opposing...
Your analogy concerning Whittaker Chambers and the publican is not only inconsistent but ludicrous. This "humble" publican has performed no ablution, but rather has come out of the temple to sell his sins. Whittaker Chambers is an emotional, not a rational man. This is shown from his grasp of "faiths...
Since flying saucers are rare, they require unusual conditions to produce them. Menzel hopes that his rational explanation will encourage good observers to be on the alert for them.
Through the next four years, his secret studies took him further. Catholic teaching on social injustice-if looked at in the new scientific manner-became a comfortingly rational conspiracy. Tondi reached a conclusion: "The game of the man who is well off is to convince the man who has nothing...