Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...condemning American foreign policy as an instrument for economic exploitation. He was hissed. Said Professor Aron Gurwitsch of the New School for Social Research, a refugee from Nazi Germany: "The problem before us is whether a professional and scholarly association does not become unfaithful to its destiny, to its logic, by taking a stand on political questions. It would mean the beginning of complete politicization of our organization and of all spheres of life, and this is the hallmark of totalitarianism." After two hours of shouting, the philosophers passed a compromise resolution that omitted the Marxist critique of U.S. policy...
...author admits to the impossibility of considering Owl without indulging in a certain amount of anthropomorphism-"he postures too much; he walks about hobbling like an old man with hands clasped behind back." But as a fair observer, Service, a writer and amateur naturalist, points out that human logic isn't much help in understanding a screech owl. For one thing, how do you know what the bird is thinking when, say, he shreds a piece of spinach into 55 fragments before leaving it? Or why he reacts with evident horror to the sight of an upright moving stick...
...Putney Swope is not for people who hate Stanley Kubrick or for those who believe in common decency and/or logic; some of it is filthy, and the whole film practically disintegrates before your eyes, like Alka-Seltzer. But the commercials-within-the-movie will be cherished...
...twisted logic of suspending black students for protesting the University's illegal activities is appalling...
Some individualist rightists found the emerging Buckley-Y. A. F. mentality immoral. These individualists, who took up the label "Libertarian" rather quickly, disapproved of communism but did so without much concern for American moral superiority; their feelings were based on anti-statism, and they found no logic in supporting fascism to defeat communism because in their eyes the two were the same. As capitalists they resented Bucklcyite opposition to free trade and Bucklcyite eagerness to escalate taxes and foreign interventions. As Libertarians they were repelled by Bucklcyite eagerness to legislate against pornography, abortion, drugs, and subversion; they believed that...