Word: logic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first book, Materials for the Study of Navya-Nyaya Logic, was published in 1951 when he was an assistant professor...
...following night Bill and Alice find themselves embroiled in an argument about sex and jealousy. Both accuse the other of harboring lascivious thoughts from the night before, and their logic is playfully incisive until Alice launches into an odd (there's no other way to describe it) monologue about her dangerous attraction to a sailor the previous summer. Speaking even slower than the night before (now she's on pot!), Kidman tries to chew the scenery and ends up choking bigtime. Her monologue should be the key to the movie--a thorough exploration of how unrealized emotions can inspire...
...same sort of logic may apply to tomatoes and prostate cancer. Studies have shown that men who eat cooked tomatoes in various forms have a lower incidence of malignancy. The reason may be lycopene, another of the carotenoids, which is released when tomatoes are heated--but no one knows for sure, and even the tomato-prostate link isn't absolutely firm...
Dreben served as an advisor and mentor to a generation of Harvard scholars, including Lewis and Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren D. Goldfarb, the department chair of the philosophy department, with whom he co-wrote a book...
...redemption, rebirth, a radiant transcendence of ordinary expectations. But Eyes Wide Shut, though it is finally less bleak in its moral implications than most Kubrick movies, is in the more typical line of a man perpetually disappointed by the world's failure to abide by his standards of logic and civility...