Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stalin's "hell machine" was never pushed. Nazi troops were drained off to other fronts, and enough Red Army units and citizen volunteers remained to keep the besiegers out. The Germans settled in, hoping to starve and shell the city to death. That they did not succeed, as logic suggested they would, was due largely to Leningrad's astonishing capacity to take punishment...
...exploring together" and "learn from each other." Nonsense, replies Barzun--no undergraduate has anything valuable to say to a Ph.D. about his chosen field which he has not heard already. Though many students are bright, he concedes, they are all inarticulate. They have "no responsibility to words or logic." Their writing is garble, their medium is sabotage, their ethos is rudeness, and their morals are those of a pig sty. They expect honesty from adults, but not from themselves. He points to the prevalence of cheating...
They are merely dragged along through a universe in which time seems to have stopped and logic is dead. A flipped coin comes up heads 85 times in a row. The landscape seems blank and irrelevant to life. Meanwhile, they must watch all of Shakespeare's characters as they walk in and out, moaning and pontificating on subjects that escape them. As Rosencrantz cries in the last act, "Incidents! All we get is incidents! Dear God, is it too much to expect a little sustained action...
...spots, though the Cleveland Browns, who already have an explosive running attack seemed to be padding when they opted for Michigan Halfback Ron Johnson. Green Bay's choice of unheralded Richie Moore, a 6-ft. 7-in., 290-lb. defensive tackle from Villanova, was based on more obvious logic. Aware that the current college crop is rich with running backs but thin on pro-caliber linemen, the Packers were apparently anxious to stock up on as much beef as they could...
...feminine logic: "My theory