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Cynicism & Sophism. Mixing his sophism with some cynicism, Galbraith explained that such shyness will be outgrown before long. Corporate technocrats and government bureaucrats work in concert, he said, because they have the same aims-not a national goal or even maximum profits, but "the promotions, enlarged opportunities, higher salaries and prestige which go with growth." Moreover, since technology-oriented planning is common to both Western capitalism and Eastern European Communism, the two economic systems are "not startlingly different...
Boulez deplored the use of scientific language in music by those not thoroughly trained in both science and music. For example, numerical description of the permutations of notes in serial music is "sophism and mania, related more to despair than to science"; such an approach raises the spectre of the medieval fanatics of the Golden Number...
...unoriginal 195,000 who are ending all mystery this wedding month of June, I took special note and interest in your "Marriage-Go-Round" potpourri. Although it vibrated with the typical waves of TIME'S sophism and sophistication, I enjoyed the article, thinking of the contrast between the week after and the week before, which you so rosily described...
...finally retired from practice in 1840, he decided to extend his listings further. To Roget, the abuse of language was becoming a menace. "A misapplied or misapprehended term," said he, "is sufficient to give rise to ... interminable disputes; a misnomer has turned the tide of popular opinion; a verbal sophism has decided a party question; an artful watchword, thrown among combustible materials, has kindled the flame of deadly warfare . . ." Roget hoped not only to end the menace but to give the speech of ordinary men "wings for flight...
...criticism in England. But Lewis' Christianity, says his critic, has brought him more money than it ever brought Joan of Arc, and a lot more publicity than she enjoyed in her lifetime. In contrast to his tight scholarly writing (says this critic), Lewis' Christian propaganda is cheap sophism: having lured his reader onto the straight highway of logic, Lewis then inveigles him down the garden path of orthodox theology...