Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The cinema resists rational criticism almost as firmly as a six-day bicycle race, or perhaps love. . . . The common level of intelligence in the world is presumably that of the normal adolescent. . . . Ninety percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is...
Saint Augustine, "the Saint of the Intellect," is enthroned among the saints as "the first great teacher of rational thought." His Doctrina Christiana, "the earliest pedagogical textbook of the Western world," supplied "the foundation on which the first European universities were built." From his teachings arise the famed Protestant tenets...
"The civilization of the new [comic book] order is in great part a herdist phenomenon. Its subjects are . . . standardized men, men en bloc. . . . Everything is centered on one man-the leader, the hero, the duce, the Führer. Herd responses not being on the rational level, this hero does...
A weaker or more rational man might have conceded by now that the jig was up. But Argentina's Vice President, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor conceded nothing. By hook or by crook, he was still determined to be elected President.
War or Peace? The Administration had apparently expected something more rational. Only last spring the C.I.O. News trumpeted: "IT'S INDUSTRIAL PEACE FOR THE POSTWAR PERIOD!" Labor Leaders Phil Murray and William Green and the Chamber of Commerce's Eric Johnston had promised: "Management-labor unity . . . must be...