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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There was no unequivocal answer. But the U. S. public knew that something was slowing down defense. What that some thing was was answered in scores of ways by columnists, reporters, editorial writers. But, by & large, the nation's interest was in the forest, not the trees. The average citizen knew that because of shillyshally, lack of compromise between capital & labor, failure to see what was ahead, France had ceased to exist, Poland was in chains, Britain had its back to the wall. What was wrong with U. S. defense...
Madden's pet hate is Manhattan's cafe-society crowd. "The whole racket," he once wrote, "is nothing but a Show-Off Handicap. It's a good thing it aint a weight for age race or some of them fillies could never lift a foot. Everything, clothes and talk, is loud and cheap and I'm convinced that most of them, if they could get two more people to turn around and look at them, or could get their kisser in another toothpaste ad, a mention by a columnist or their picture in a tab, they...
First was revealed to listening Harvard the bare facts of a burlesque star's real life the one thing you cannot learn about at the Old Howard Athencaum. Moreover, Ann kept consternation at a high pitch by giving a lesson in the fundamentals--o-h-h gentlemen!--of her own style of winning friends and influencing people's libido...
...Boston. The Sidewalk Superintendents' Club will suspend its frequent meetings. Call cards and books will ease up their frenzied shuttling across the Widener delivery desk. Harvard won't really be in Cambridge any more, but will be scattered all over the country. In a crisis, it's a refreshing thing...
Aristotelian logic, Reiser says, has dominated Western thought for 2,000 years, confuses science and society by its omnipresent lingering. This logic is two-valued: a thing is either true or not true. Non-Aristotelian logic (which Bertrand Russell rejects) is many-valued, fills the chasm between true and not true with probabilities. A four-valued logic would permit: true, probably true, possibly true, not true. (The word "and" then acquires 14.348,907 distinct meanings.*) Such logic is not speculative nonsense but a tool urgently needed, for example, by atom-studying physicists. It is also vital in comprehending the relativity...