Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richter considers not visual art but music "my principal inspiration." As a child in Berlin, he became fascinated with the impeccable synthesis of logic and rhythm found in the fugues of J. S. Bach. His rhythmically fragmented paintings of musicians made under the cubist-futurist influence around 1914, show him striving for a visual emulation of Bach's counterpoint...
...forces to the periphery of South Viet Nam, into isolated areas where they had little to gain and lives to lose. He did much the same thing to the French in 1952 and 1953. Last week's series of urban attacks was a radical departure, but it has some logic and some advantages. A major element in U.S. strength is mobility in the air; if enough damage could be done to airfields and aircraft, that element would be sharply reduced. Fighting inside cities also nullified much of the U.S. firepower; neither artillery nor heavy bombing could be employed...
...many cases, such "inside" information reflects a broker's rationalization, a story confected for customers to account for a swing in paper profits. Or it follows a line laid down by overnight experts-financial writers required to fill columns of type with solemn economic logic to explain short-term market moves that may reflect neither economics nor logic. Too often, day-to-day stock gyrations obscure a basic fact: markets are made and moved over the long haul, not by vague forces but by the conscious decisions of men. The important question is not what makes stocks move...
...counter arguments for moving the requirement to the freshman year are convincing. The required course is remedial--and should be part of the freshman program by the same logic that puts Expository Writing 10 there. The best time to build on any earlier language training is during a student's first year, before he has forgotten all he learned in secondary school...
...South Carolina cotton picker as a child, Harlem slum dweller as a teenager, Singer Kitt listened with growing impatience to the women's pernickety reports about the causes of crime in the streets. Finally she spoke up-with passion, if not with convincing logic...