Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That interest swiftly became clear when the Japanese, who buy about 80% of Indonesia's exports of 1 million bbl. per day, agreed to the boost. The U.S., which imports 17% of Indonesia's output, has no choice but to pay up too-and hope that the logic of supply and demand will prevail when the other petroleum exporters review prices July...
Because Thompson does not believe in straight lines of logic, his thought is often hard to untangle. Yet a theme runs through his work. Edge of History laid the foundations. Initially it seemed to be the first-person adventures of an intellectual picaro charting his disenchantment with Los Angeles, the Esalen Institute, M.I.T., think tanks and other outposts of American culture. But in the final chapter, when Thompson soared into a free-form essay on myth as futurology, his intent became clear: he is a man questing for evidence of man's perfectibility...
...story involves Jonas Acme, American capitalist, who makes pig-oil beer from smuggled pig-nuts. Acme, with somewhat convoluted logic, explains that as long as the American working man drinks pig-oil beer, he will not rebel...
...Golan Heights, "the Syrians fire sporadically," said one Israeli battalion commander. "We never know when they will begin, and we don't know when they will stop. There is no logic to it." In fact, the logic was to get the Israelis to negotiate seriously. The firing may also have been designed to reassure hawks back in Damascus that President Hafez Assad is truly determined to recover all Syrian land captured by Israel in two wars...
...need for polytheism? Because today many people are discovering "that a single story, a monovalent logic, a rigid theology are not adequate." Among the believers in other kinds of polysolutions are psychological theorists like Norman O. Brown and R.D. Laing, each of whom, says Miller, is a "Martin Luther in the face of psychological orthodoxy." Both Brown and Laing suggest that there can be a number of equally real but mutually exclusive aspects of the self. Healing does not necessarily mean "getting it all together." Indeed, "keeping it all apart" may be the better way. Miller cites at greatest length...