Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seven Seas is the product of Freuchen's long, dark winters in Greenland, when his mind sailed off with the big bergs "as they floated eternally to their doom." Wrote Freuchen: "Little by little it dawned upon me that there is a logical connection between everything that happens in that immense connected body of salty water that covers 71 percent of the surface of the earth." That logic led Explorer Freuchen to learn the lore he put into his book. He studied the science of the tides, waves and winds, learned about history's great sea battles...
...weeks. Those who took them would get no academic credit, would even have to pay $15 for the privilege of getting out of bed just as on any school day. Nonetheless, 17 signed up for the three-hour morning course in the history of philosophy, 26 more for logic in the afternoon. Exclaimed Pupil Sylvia Schaffer, 14, last week: "I would do this all year long. It's lots of fun." Says Teacher Ansley: "We aren't shoving this down the students' throats. The kids have insisted on it. They won't get any credits from...
Wang, however, is powerless to deal with the less educated. His appeal can only be made in language and logic which would be incomprehensible to the crowds on the Common. Ironically, this limitation on his audience destroys him. For his logic, exposed to the least sophisticated analysis, becomes illogic, and his language becomes the old refrain of hate...
After several months, when he knows the music so well that he understands the composer's unconscious logic, the critic is ready to write an "analytical score" that isolates and interweaves the composition's various themes, phrases, harmonies and rhythms, thereby demonstrating how they relate to each other and to the central idea. The analytical score is played as a series of interludes after each movement; in the case of the Mozart Quartet, the original piece takes about 30 minutes, the interludes 17 minutes. Their effect is like looking at a painting, then watching a series of lantern...
Creeping Socialism. Since capital "owned by about 5 percent of the households, [in the U.S. economy] produces 90 percent of the wealth," the U.S. has yet to apply the full logic of K. & A.'s citizen-capitalism. Instead of broadening the base of capitalism, they argue, the U.S. merely redistributes earnings through an elaborate, makeshift system including the steeply graduated income tax, arbitrarily fixed high wages, surplus-producing subsidies, featherbedding, Keynesian deficit financing, etc. Through such "creeping socialism," labor's share of the wealth produced has increased from an estimated...