Word: logical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from which the Times advertisement was generated. It points toward a new form of communication between the masses--these churchmen are members of the lower middle and working classes, not the middle class--and those portions of larger society which can appreciate a "protest" movement that utilizes hard-nosed logic (and methods) and proposes intelligent programmatic action. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that this does not always include the "liberal" community...
...Logic Factories. One consequence of such snags is the swift rise of software service and consulting companies, which offer high-level technical support, such as systems design or programming to meet individual specifications. By one estimate, there are now some 2,500 of these logic factories, the bulk of them one-to three-man shops. At least two dozen are publicly owned corporations. The largest, Los Angeles' Computer Sciences Corp., has grown from a two-man firm in 1959 into a $37 million-a-year enterprise with 2,500 employees and 156 customers...
This anecdote, with its human pathos and maddening Slavic logic (psychologic would be a better term), is one that epitomizes the virtues of Robert K. Massie's book on the tragic couple who presided as semidivine personages over the geographical-mystical entity known as the Russian Empire...
...falls victim to conspiracy, accident, destruction. "What is freedom in the last analysis," he says to himself, "other than the state of being totally, instead of only partially, subject to the tyranny of chance?" The photographer becomes Bowles's modern antihero, participating in "an invisible spectacle whose painful logic he followed with the entire fiber of his being, without, however, once being given a clear vision of what agonizing destinies were at stake...
...will say that pitching is 75 per cent of the game, and thus the Red Sox are a fluke team and will inevitably collapse. But Bostonians will hear none of this heretical talk. The Red Sox, after all, are the Red Sox, and besides, they have been defying all logic since April. Why can't they do it for a little while longer...