Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professors of English are not by nature practical men. They are not accustomed to thinking of work and pleasure as mutually exclusive. They are also self-indulgent. They would not dream of saving up Shakespeare for a rainy day. They are also irrational. They do not readily grasp the logic by which the present is emptied of beauty and significance so that acorns can be stored up for a golden future. A professor of English who becomes a dean is bound to become a hypocrite or a subversive because what he wants is Athens and Florence...
Violence for the Vietnamese therefore was not illogical. But neither did it have an all-consuming logic of its own: it was one of many weapons in the revolutionary arsenal, to be used when needed and cast aside when it no longer advanced them toward their objectives. The struggle proceeded simultaneously on several fronts and the various thrusts complemented each other. Political and social reforms followed liberation troops into liberated areas. Soldiers were not centurions, but bearers of a new way of life...
Following this logic, speculation centered on John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, or Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, as probable acting deans...
...compare the actions of criminal types to those of people trying to escape a tyrannical regime defies all logic. Cubans, unlike Americans, cannot leave their country at will and have to force their way out against heavy odds of ever reaching freedom...
...Count me out of Mr. Nixon's New Majority of comfortable Americans who leave the poor, the deprived, the sick and the old to tend for themselves in his modern-day laissez-faire society. We must find a way to counteract through persuasion and unremitting pressure the perversions of logic and priority practiced by Mr. Nixon; in this way we can prevent another Nixon. And that will be our success...