Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sprawlingly expansive people whose years. Americans are a sprawlingly expansive people whose chromosomes are a genetic brawl, an ingathering from all the tribes of the world. America is an intellectual dream, a reverie of the Enlightenment. The American civic principle is freedom and equality. The Japanese civic logic is mutual obligation, hierarchy, and the overriding primacy of the group. Japan is governed by on, by an almost infinitely complicated network of responsibility and debt and reciprocity: what each Japanese owes every other, and what each owes the entire group. America built a society around the idea that all fates...
...dramatic breakthroughs in speed and power. More important, these computers will use their new potency not only to process mathematical data, like most computers today, but also to perform human-like reasoning: finding patterns, making assumptions, drawing inferences, reaching conclusions. Using a language called PROLOG (programming in logic), the new machines will hold intricate catalogues of knowledge that will contain the rules of thumb and mental shortcuts humans use to solve knotty problems...
...rarefied world of music instruction, Shinichi Suzuki long ago introduced such standbys of Japanese industrial thought as volume, logic and enthusiasm. Suzuki began developing his learning-through-imitation method of teaching violin more than three decades ago. Today he is 84, and his world-famous technique is 300,000 students old (two-thirds of them in the U.S.). Suzuki begins by having his students, many of them just three or four years old, watch those in the classes ahead of them. After a couple of months, they are given empty, miniature violin cases and chopsticks for bows...
That thought has a logic that the church can hardly ignore as it tries to find a way out of Poland's impasse. Polish religious leaders have learned to mix political pragmatism with a healthy measure of hope. John Paul is no exception. As he traveled across his native land, the Pope was not afraid to use politically explosive words like "solidarity." But he sought to recast them in ways that would be remembered, and useful, long after the present crisis has passed. Whatever immediate gain the state hoped to reap from the papal visit, John Paul...
...million U.S. food-assistance program. Citing her husband's ideal of "self-reliance through self-help," the First Lady declared: "There's no reason why the Philippines, which produces enough food, should import from or depend on foreign sources for its food supplies." Among those contesting such logic was Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila. Said he: "At present the full impact of the drought has not been felt, principally because the National Food Authority has been drawing on its stockpiles. But how long will these stockpiles last?" Although rains have begun to fall, many people expect...