Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEN DOES one vote? Often--as in 1964, when Johnson was a clear choice over Goldwater--the logic of the lesser of two evils has been persuasive. This year another course is indicated...
...difficult to talk about the arrangement of the poems. The ordering of the 385 is no doubt important, but I do not understand its logic. The books seem to be arranged by the time and place they were written. Book VII was written during Berryman's stay in Ireland; Book VI is a leave-taking of America, and it starts with the leave-taking of a friend -- the ten elegies on Delmore Schwartz; Book V seems to center on a stay in the hospital; Book IV is mysteriously entitled "Opus Posthumous." Each book ends on an upbeat...
...must also say that I believe over-reliance on "reason" is basically escapist. Reason is simply and only a tool, to be used to further whatever ends one wishes.* It is not an end in itself, in spite of the desire by many to worship such procedures as reason, logic, and pragmatism as cardinal virtues. This view fits neatly into American-style utilitarianism, especially since a "resort to reason" is continually used to justify existing conditions, exhort others to be practical, etc. Frankly, I have no use whatsoever for practicality and reason unless they are subordinated to basic human needs...
...students take a heady curriculum in four areas: anthropology; language and literature; civilizations; systems. The language and literature program includes a study of the cinema as well as courses on the Christian tradition and comparative mythology. The study of systems at Prescott starts with an analysis of logic and mathematics, branches off into astronomy physics, chemistry, psychology and political science. The anthropology department deals with man's relationship to his environment, to his culture, and to himself. It ranges from courses in geography and geology to zoology-all backed up by six weeks of field work in the nearby...
...first Mailer was dismayed at McCarthy's failure to attack Humphrey in debate before the California delegation. Then he came to realize that the Senator was "proceeding on the logic of the saint, as if the first desire of the ONE devil might be to make you the instrument of your own will. God would judge the importance of the event, not man, and God would give the tongue to speak, if tongue was the organ to be manifested. Everything in McCarthy's manner, his quiet voice, his absolute refusal to etch his wit with any hint...