Word: logical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this logic, the consequences of an American defeat in Vietnam would be catastrophic. Revolutionary leaders on all continents would be so encouraged and heartened that violent uprisings would spring up all over. Most Americans realize that if these are successful, the United States' own security will be endangered--another reason for supporting the Vietnam...
Miroir soars and sparkles on occasion, but fails to sustain a high level of quality throughout. The piece's major fault is that it lacks any logic to carry the listener through. The serial composition is by the composer's own admission, a musical almanac "going from Beethoven to Schoenberg in five minutes." Harmonically it shows a startling resourcefulness, both tonal and non-tonal. Particularly amusing was the recurrence of a particularly slushy theme, either because of the humorous contrast with Pousseur's art, or perhaps due to its explicit banality in the Pousseur context...
...find it difficult to understand why Jared Israel and the other Progressive Labor Party members in SDS support American withdrawal from Vietnam. It would seem to me that the logic of their position would lead them to call for American military victory at any price...
...Think Tank. The program might have been laid out according to the McLuhan notion that in TV, form counts more than content. In M:I the Tinkertoy stuff on the screen is far more important than plot logic. In one elaborate ruse, the M:I team stole a whole train and pulled one car full of passengers into a shed where, with the help of films and sound effects, they convinced the passengers that there had been a wreck. In another, they saved the day by starting an earthquake with supersonic waves. This week, they unnerved a murder-for-hire...
...Animal. Basically, linguistics is the study of the underlying principles of language. The discipline concerns itself with dissecting the grammar and logic of the world's languages, tracing their shifting patterns and distribution, studying their impact on individuals, groups and institutions. Ultimately, it seeks to explain the ages-old mystery of precisely how and why man developed the unique facility of speech as an expression of thought, which, more than any other activity, separates him from animals...