Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show, felt that the President was doing the best he could with a very complex problem. To have doubted that he and the Administration were not at all times pursuing the possibility of negotiations requires a state of mind that refuses to pay any attention to the realistic, inescapable logic in the situation...
...Fifth Commandment, "Thou shall not kill," and for the careless driver he quotes St. Thomas Aquinas' stern dictum on carelessness: "He who allows certain events to happen which result in homicide by imprudence becomes guilty in a certain manner of premeditated homicide." The author even invokes the moral logic of Matthew 5: 28-"Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart"-as making traffic violations sinful even if no smashup results. For example, contends Renard, "the motorist who gets ready to pass another without having verified whether...
...Schuller makes a most persuasive case for the argument that the beauties of jazz "are those of any great, compelling musical experience: expressive fervor, intense artistic commitment and an intuitive sense for structural logic." Who knows? If the slipper fits, music's Cinderella may one day even go to live in the castle of esthetic status, cultural respectability and all that...
Only One Couple. The logic of it all seemed overwhelming, and few disciplines pay as much homage to logic as do the law and math. But neither works right with the wrong premises. Hearing an appeal of Malcolm Collins' conviction, the California Supreme Court recently turned up some serious defects, including the fact that not even the odds were all they seemed...
Hanoi responded with chilling logic that "the absurd and insolent conditions" the United States has attached to peace talks show that our government is not seriously seeking to negotiate an end to the war. It seems likely that Administration hawks, cheered on by the liberation of Khe Sanh, are pressing for fresh escalation. And the record intensity of bombing raids these last two days suggests they have gotten what they wanted...