Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surviving work lies on this latitude of the imagination, sharing it with other purifiers of experience: Piero della Francesca, Poussin, Cézanne. Its fundamental condition, the mood of La Tour's key paintings, is a kind of analytical silence: a stillness that mediates between the logic of Descartes and the mysticism of Pascal, both of whom were La Tour's approximate contemporaries. To see the candle flame play on the faces of La Tour's models, rendering them both explicit and transcendent, is to witness a profound meditation on the limits...
Whether the McGovern budget actually provides for the kinds and degrees of force that might be found necessary is debatable. He insists that there is faulty logic in comparing one year's budget with another and considering any reduction an automatic decline in strength. "If we spend $20 billion on new weapons in one year and $5 billion the next," he notes, "we have not cut our military force. We have increased it by $5 billion." Pentagon and independent analysts contend that McGovern has underestimated the costs of the forces in his recommended budget by at least $10 billion...
...deal was renegotiated; Don Carlo claimed that $350,000 was steep and wondered if the kidnapers would be satisfied with $60,000. After a day of haggling, the abductors agreed. The FBI, which had got wind of the goings-on, then interceded. Undaunted, Don Carlo boldly argued, with some logic, that the Government provide the ransom because he might be accused of gypping the Internal Revenue Service if he came up with such a large sum. The FBI refused, and on May 25, Don Carlo's men tossed the $60,000 into a gully along a New Jersey highway...
...computation by Stanford's Henry Levin to show that lack of high school diplomas cost 3,000,000 American men $237 billion in their working lifetime because of low wages [May 29] is the kind of dumb logic that has made our education system so ridiculously expensive...
...persistence in tackling what might seem to others a hopeless cause." McGovern has learned to sit down and deal with people on issues, he says, in contrast to a Lyndon Johnson who always sought out his opponent's weakness in negotiating rather than debating substance and employing logic...