Word: intuitionism
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Computers v. Clausewitz. This unusual new breed of analysts and planners, more learned in computers than in Clausewitz, is dedicated to the belief that the demands of defense in the thermonuclear age have outdated the methods as well as the armor that served in past wars. Says Dr. Alain C...
Waffled Disagreements. While the Whiz Kids acknowledge in principle the usefulness of long experience in uniform, they give the professional soldiers poor marks at paperwork. Says one: "The military too often are inarticulate. In papers, they resort to the all-purpose sentence that doesn't recommend anything, but merely...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which was probably the chief critical influence in developing the great outpouring of American abstractionism of the last 15 years, this week puts on a significant show of new U.S. figure painting. The mere fact of the show certainly means that abstraction is...
But, since the middle of the nineteenth century, when detached, scientific methods replaced intuition as the foundation for engineering many have feared a divorce of passion from technique, Nervi suggested.
The Case Against. Defense Secretary McNamara trusts his charts, tables and economic projections just as much as General LeMay trusts his own experiences and intuition. McNamara's figures indicate that the money that would have to go into the RS-70 could be better spent elsewhere. For the $10...