Word: logician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, it is true. James is a rare combination of amateur logician and sociologist, stylist, humorist and stern moralist. In fact, much of the joy of reading him comes from the extravagant spectacle of a first-rate mind wasting itself on baseball. Is baseball 75% pitching? No, it isn't, and James will show in a page or so that the proposition makes no more sense than saying "Philosophy is 75% God." Are the good teams the ones that bear down in the crucial final innings? No. The Cardinals and Blue Jays would still have won their divisions last year...
...nice logician's view of how to present a case," says Montgomery of the Government Department. "He knows what kind of evidence should be marshalled, and he has an instinct for a nicely paced argument...
...McCarthy, Texas, are spiritual midgets, made small by life and their own tediously limited ambitions. But there is a double irony, invisible perhaps to those onstage: Playwright Ed Graczyk and Director Robert Altaian can also be counted among the Lilliputians, and it would take the talents of a logician to determine who should get the greater blame for this misguided effort...
Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia, 1970). Under the baton of that red-blooded logician, Pierre Boulez, all is rite in Stravinsky's polysavage modern classic...