Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rube Goldberg ant traps-have a jaunty energy that enables them to survive not only their plague but the plague of their author: dark moralizing. It is as if Calvino's people, exuberant for absolutely no good reason, are on their way to liberating him from the cursed logic of his pessimism. Stand by, Qfwfq-and you too, Mrs. Vhd Vhd, wherever...
Although his polemical style handicaps his logic, Brustein is making many good points. For one thing, he demonstrates graphically that much of the New Left is making use of exactly the tactics which have brought the old right such success-violence and terror, incredible self-righteousness and moral absolutism, and callous disregard for the rights of the individual. Brustein himself was forced to go into hiding last spring after repeated death threats. His classes were disrupted, his speeches heckled, his academic freedom essentially taken away in favor of mob rule...
What follows this must be given careful attention because it is such a distortion of logic and reason, such a grand fallacy, that we almost assent to the argument in a brief, but heady, moment of romantic absurdism...
...students who might have preferred closed hearings. Their novel solution to this patently unlikely problem is to close everyone's hearing. No options, no problems. This solution, after all, will make all the hearings consistent and expedient. The Committee's memo continues, bringing more of this same fairness and logic to bear on the point...
...through me, the local embodiment. Suddenly, I found myself defending Harvard's tough-mindedness, its neglect of graduate students in the name of intellectual individualism. I was rebuking this man of the West with all the hauteur of the mythical Harvard man ! It was only a final touch of logic that the Chamber of Commerce pamphlet which described the town in which this man's college was located, showed, in its street guide, that every street and avenue bore the name of an Eastern college (a Harvard Avenue) or historical figure prominent before the westward expansion of the nineteenth century...