Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long, whom McCarthy voted last week to retain as Democratic whip, are certainly no tribute to his taste in Senators. Both are hawks on Vietnam, and Long has compiled a pretty objectionable record across the board. McCarthy volunteered explanations for each of these seemingly mysterious acts, but yesterday the logic was a little convoluted and last week it was a little, well, poor. There was truth in McCarthy's contention that replacing Russell Long with Ted Kennedy represented no real step forward in the democratization of the Democratic Party; it was Robert LaFollette who said that half a loaf "dulls...
...crystalline logic underlies all of Bach's work-which is one reason why he is so often the favorite composer of mathematicians and scientists. But his music also throbs with a living pulse; his rhythms and harmonic modulations, however controlled, evolve with a seeming spontaneity. His endlessly inventive melodies, however neatly they fit into a scheme, rise and fall and intertwine with a lyrical life of their own. The most solid of his constructions are nevertheless charged with energy and intensity. And as Robert Shaw points out, his lines serve not only to fill in the structure but also...
Unfortunately, the perversion of our political life in the past was so profound that I personally am certain that our citizens are not yet mature. We Greeks have the weakness of act ing not only from logic but from emotion, and the politicians of the past must be cured of this weakness be fore they can help start a healthy process toward formation of political parties and the holding of elections. If we reach the point where fewer .politicians insult the revolution and where they accept their obligations as servants of the people, then perhaps we may have the opportunity...
...elevating our opponent to a pedestal," he wrote in the Brookings Institution's recently published Agenda for the Nation. "If they discern some stupidity or self-interest on our side, they assume that the other side must be virtuous." As for hardliners, he continued, they "follow the same logic in reverse...
...Supreme Court appointed Judge William John Beer of the neighboring Sixth Circuit. To represent them, the judges hired a Detroit law firm. This vas one case, however, in which the attorneys clearly benefited from the advice of their clients. The plaintiffs' 50-page brief was dazzling in its logic and citations from past decisions...