Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their expertise increases, players can try out more complicated variations of the game. Explains Jose Ballester, assistant games buyer for the Brentano's bookstore chain: "Chance plays an important element in the first three tries. After that it's logic." In fact, manufacturers of educational materials such as Cuisenaire in New Rochelle, N.Y., and J.L. Hammett based in Braintree, Mass, are already promoting the game to teach logic in the classroom...
Bare Scripts. As Bob & Ray see it, the world of broadcasting - and by implication the world - follows a loony logic based on the laws of improbability...
...recent article on gun control (Crimson, October 25) shows a striking lack of logic and careful thought. It is true that there are reasonable and fair arguments against handgun control, but Peter Ferrara carefully manages to avoid discussing any of them. Most of what he says is either false or a convincing argument for, rather than against, gun control...
...article dodges the problem of assassination by telling us that the criminal, not the gun, is responsible for the crime. Actually, the final cause of death is the bullet, and so by this logic bullets should all be made of sponge rubber so as to not hurt anyone. But what's the use of the "Psychology of the Killer" theory anyway, since the man can't be caught until the crime is committed? By then it's a bit late for people like Robert Kennedy and George Wallace. In contrast, I doubt if Oswald could have killed John Kennedy from...
processional axes, broken by sudden revelations of mass and space. The pub lic, pronounced one Beaux-Arts professor, "need never ask the way in a good plan." Ideally, one was carried forward by the logic of the plan as, at a play, one was swept along by the plot. The buildings were meant to unfold. This feeling for ritual movement, the promenade, would almost disappear from architecture in the 20th century; and yet it was functional. Gamier was one of the last to recognize that fantasy and ceremonial had valid roles in secular architecture. People did not just...