Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China are having trouble with the peasants. Those who must farm the land to feed the world's most populous country do not seem to have got the idea at all. In fact, most of them suffer from "spontaneous tendencies toward capitalism." Others, unable to see the logic of increasing output or wealth only to have to give it up to government confiscators, are now afflicted, say the propagandists, with the delusion that poverty is best...
...opening address at Caracas, Dulles with cool logic coupled his case for joint anti-Communist measures ("There is not a single country in this hemisphere which has not been penetrated by the apparatus of international Communism operating under orders from Moscow") with the prospect of U.S. economic cooperation (more technical aid, continued Export-Import Bank loans, no price ceilings on coffee). The Secretary made no reference to Guatemala, the one country where Communists are gaining steadily in influence...
...comparatively minor work, Mozart exhibits his uncanny scoring ability. The instrumentation is perfectly suited to the music, and no other combination seems possible. Such is not the case with the other duo work on the program, Martinu's Three Madrigals. This is good, strong stuff, but has little instrumental logic. Of course, not all local color is eliminated, and there are several very impressive effects: the viola is often used as a percussive instrument, and the skilful utilization of mutes gives an eerie flavor to the second madrigal. But nearly always, another instrument would have been equally effective. It seems...
...study of giant themes-e.g., the ideas of good v. evil in Western literature, freedom and authority in the modern world, the principles of science. From the start, students read Homer, St. Augustine, Dante and Tolstoy, study the great laws of science and the experiments and logic that produced them. Later, the stage narrows down to the student's chosen field. Finally (for honors men) comes the senior thesis that might bear the title, "A 13th Century Sermon in Picard on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary" or "The Persians of Aeschylus...
...must have symbols, Preacher is Evil. His mind is contorted into a fantastic kind of Calvinist logic: He has been sent to rid the world of greed and sensual pleasure; to do so he must have money. Travelling up and down the Ohio he accomplishes all by enticing middle-aged widows to marry him; just before the wedding he acquires their meager fortune. Then he kills them. But when he marries the mother of the two children in hopes of getting the stolen money, he happily fails...