Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MAYBE THE DEEPER PROBLEM HERE is Bok's logic as well as other messages derived from a post-Watergate mentality. In Watergate the issues were fairly black and white. There was no great difficulty in discerning who the evil forces were and what immoral decisions were made. If, say, a school in public administration were to discuss case studies of the Watergate break-in and Nixon cover-up, the ethics of the matter would be clear. But what if the course's instructor tries to tackle a more complex and important issue, such as Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia...
Died. Raymond Queneau, 73, influential avant-garde author whose linguistic pyrotechnics on everyday themes helped transform modern French fiction; in Paris. Trained in logic, psychoanalysis, mathematics and philosophy, Queneau wrote scores of poems and novels, including Zazie dans le Metro, a 1959 bestseller about the Rabelaisian exploits of an eleven-year-old nymph...
Rapture, about a man trying to reconstruct his life and his discovery of the inadequacy of scientific logic to meet his needs, is playing Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. at Playwright's Platform, Church of all Nations, 333 Trement St., Boston...
NEITHER CELINE'S fiction, nor his political rhetoric is informed by logic. They are both swept along by passion and instinct, by a kind of blindly nihilistic faith. McCarthy suggests that his antisemitism is coupled with an affinity for the Jew and explains this ambivalence in pseudo-religious terms...
Therapist Dyer sets up the advice as a syllogism - a risky step in a genre usually devoted to deploring rationality. His logic: I can control my thoughts; my feelings come from my thoughts; therefore I can control my feelings. To Dyer, who wrote his book in just 13 days, it is all very simple: "Mental health is not complex, involved or hard work. It ought to be just common sense...