Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...logic behind writing one's own vows is not all bad. It is very American: the kids going into business for themselves and wanting to define precisely what the terms of the enterprise are to be. Good luck. The self-made ceremony expresses a kind of romantic individualism (not to say, sometimes, narcissism) that wants to reclaim the event from its bloodless institutional routine and make it mean something wondrous and memorable. Marriage is, one thinks at the start, a long journey. The couple want a bright send-off at the station to think about during those interminable stretches...
During his 12 years in office, President Bok's most widely publicized statements about South Africa have primarily been his defense of the University's refusal to divest from companies conducting business in South Africa. In two separate open letters on the subject, Bok has presented the University's logic in opposing divestiture, which his most recent open letter last month called "a costly and ineffective way of lighting apartheid...
Read across, rather than down, the above becomes a poem. Call it Civilized Man. Only he gives names to, let alone catalogues reading, sex, and eating. The difficulty of the task is revealed in the bizarre logic of classification, which is no more advanced than the "certain Chinese encyclopedia" in a passage by Borges, quoted by Foucault, in which it it written that "animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c)tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with...
...defects that mar Fool for Love -slapdash structuring, spongy logic -are not unique to Sam Shepard, now nearing 40, but weaken the works of oft-called "promising" U.S. playwrights in the same generation. To transform experience into consciousness is what differ entiates art from reportage. It is not enough to leave a theater knowing what we have seen. We ought to leave it knowing more than we knew. Shepard does not really provide that illumination, nor do Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, Albert Innaurato, David Rabe, Thomas Babe, Israel Horovitz, Terrence McNally and Christopher Durang...
...same logic, they warn that simply opting for deep cuts in existing nuclear arsenals is no easy answer to the nuclear nightmare. They point out that the "wrong kind" of reductions in superpower arsenals could increase nuclear instability and that deep cuts are only helpful if the "most destabilizing" nuclear weapons systems are reduced first, such as multiple-warhead missiles. By contrast, it would make no sense to reduce the number of missile-bearing U.S. submarines by 50%: "Fewer than ten submarines [the estimated number that would then remain on active patrol at any one time] would have...