Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For accuracy's sake, it should be pointed out that in the article "The Quandary of the Cults" [Dec. 18], the photo captioned "Founder L. Ron Hubbard" of the Church of Scientology was not Mr. Hubbard at all. While the writer did have the sense to make a rational...
The irrational element will continue its present dominance in our society until we take the radical step of beginning formal instruction in the methods of rational thought at the first-grade level.
Kermit is alive and well, and Charlie and Mortimer were, after all, only puppets. If the world were a wholly rational place, their claims on it would be small. But the fact is they do make claims, and strong ones. Kermit, rueful and dithered frees a part of our own...
When we reached the bargain basement itself, Namo passed into a trance--like state, staring at the islands of gods-at-slashed-prices, shouldering his way roughly through the crowd of rabid shoppers, and stopping now and then to pick up an item for closer examination, or to give it...
The Core bulled its way into April, carrying the rest of us along with it, but it was hardly the only distraction. Nothing so structured, so rational, could dominate for long; the world needs too much room in which to go mad. This little island in Cambridge, rising with calm...