Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their logic wasn't perfectly structured or systemized; their actions and attitudes represented an idealism to which few people can relate, much less aspire. But the all-pervasive, potentially-disastrous effects of our present process of socialization were made clear to anyone who took the time to understand these three people. Their presence gathered more people together, and stimulated a more meaningful exchange to ideas, than any other episode I've been involved in since coming to Harvard. It was an exciting, inspiring experience for me to be exposed to people who had perceived a small part of an ultimate...
...logic here is simple and very much in the vein of Cronbach's rebuttal to the Jensen paper, i.e., if you want black kids to think like white kids, imprint this type of thinking habit early (5 days to 2 years of age) with simple thinking, concept cluster tasks. White tutors can do this in the homes or at drop-in centers or white teachers can enable black parents to learn...
Died. Dr. Karl Jaspers, 86, eminent German philosopher, whose explorations into the nature of man established him as one of the foremost existentialist thinkers of his day; after a long illness; in Basel, Switzerland. Jaspers was a trained psychiatrist with deep spiritual convictions and a profound faculty for logic. Yet he considered science, religion, and reason incapable of elucidating man's complexities, holding that man can only grasp his authentic Being through confrontation with the vicissitudes of life. Like Kierkegaard, Jaspers embraced the Judeo-Christian belief that "however minute a quantity the individual may be among the factors that...
...Western intellectual community-a genuine holdover from the liberal-Communist marriage of the '30s. During the Civil War, he went to Spain as to a shrine. He closed his eyes to the horrors of Stalin's purges, shrugged off the Hitler-Stalin pact. Unused to the logic of the world, he failed to draw the conclusions that occurred to less talented men as a result of these debacles...
...This logic has its flaws. It is doubtful that such a pathetic legal maneuver would fool the Court of Appeals or any other court, although Stamler attorneys had preferred to take on HUAC in its original form. The new Committee will inherit the same liberal enemies and the same inimitable style of the deceased...