Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Governor Nelson Rockefeller's statement upon vetoing New York State's most recent abortion bill is interesting, especially if one notes the ultimate logic of his argument about morality...
...violence is never senseless to the person who commits it. The absurdity occurs only to the victims and onlookers. Therein lies the deepest fear of modern times. War may be obscene; still, it obeys its own rules of tactics and strategy. Organized crime kills, yet it has a penetrable logic of venality and revenge. But contemporary "senseless violence" is opaque. No one can accurately fathom the mind of the deranged, no screen exists to separate the terrorist and his target...
Kurt Godel, Sc.D., mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the dominating figure in logic today and has been this for over 40 years . . . His work is a foundation and life force...
...along with science when it looks for ironclad explanations of phenomena. Likewise I resent the counterpart notion in art, that it is a problem-solving activity, that it has only one great direction-'the mainstream'-which moves with a sort of fine, Vatican logic. Much good art, the art that interests me, veers away from any center, and does nothing but explore the perpetual strangeness of the world. It is eccentric, and that's what I think Chicago artists are, even more than surrealist." ∙Robert Hughes
...most interesting aspect of Yes's music is its ability to create a high degree of excitement in a tightly structured format. Eschewing the standard rock pattern of vocal alternating with instrumental solos, the group's music proceeds on a logic of its own. Always tightly constructed, but never forced, the songs involve such a variety of instruments that the listener is sometimes overwhelmed. Songs like "Roundabout," "South Side of the Sky," and "Long Distance Runaround" are collages of melodies, percussion patterns, and vocal harmonies. Electric and acoustic guitars alternate freely with electric and grand pianos. Yes refuses...