Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...molecule might take the shape of a helix, or spiral. From the X-ray crystallography laboratory at King's College in London, where Biochemist Maurice Wilkins was also investigating the molecule's structure, they quietly obtained unpublished X-ray data on DNA. Relying as much on luck as logic, they constructed Tinkertoy-like molecular models out of wire and other metal parts. To everyone's astonishment, they suddenly produced a DNA model that not only satisfied the crystallographic evidence but also conformed to the chemical rules for fitting its many atoms together...
Needless to say our presentations were mere expressions of U. S. imperialism and, therefore, devoid of any right to free speech. This makes sense. But let us look at what this logic drives us to. All classes PLP tells us, seek to protect their power-their freedom if you will. Therefore, if we are to be branded as a separate class, the capitalist class, all those of us who support freedom (our version) must defend ourselves when our freedoms are attacked. Since our class is the class in power in America, it doesn't make sense for these "revolutionaries...
...recognize the reality of things, which is that the large, specialized defense contractors are really public firms." Under his plan the Government would buy out shareholders in any firm that reached a certain level of dependence on Government business by exchanging U.S. bonds for their securities. There is logic of sorts in Galbraith's idea: it would allow the nation to keep skilled teams intact by guaranteeing them steady employment, even in slack times...
...Harvard Department of Philosophy were competent to deal with any issue dispassionately, your colleagues there would be quick to point out the logical peculiarities of your plea. I hope-but do not expect-that some other department may contain an instructor in whom logic is conjoined with courage sufficient to demonstrate that the irony of your argument is comparable to that of the Eleatic Zeno, except for the fact that Zeno knew what he was doing...
...much a matter of logic as of dogma. I assume that I may be excused for failing to appreciate how you can argue that you are merely communicating "deeply held views" about the war in Southeast Asia, when you end your letter by telling poor old Henry that he has been "caught up in and locked into a set of policies that negate everything he is trying to achieve"-policies of which he is "one of the key architects and administrators." If such is indeed your argument, then either Mr. Kissinger should be barred from Harvard for reasons of stupidity...