Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tonu Kalam played the Beethoven First Concerto--in a manner that suggested he had better things to do. A difficult work to put across, the Beethoven relies on classical structure and logic rather than flashy passage-work and sweeping melodies. Delicacy and extreme sensitivity are a must, and Kalam revealed neither. Without exception, his phrases were rushed, brusque, and superficial...
...super powers, the U.S. and Russia: "to take his prizes while the big antagonists are deadlocked-witness the oil deals France is busy making in the Middle East." The French President makes no secret of the fact that he considers the U.S. his best target. In fact, Gaullist logic makes the U.S. out to be the necessary target for France in the interest of world harmony "by contending that American power is dominant in the world, most secure in its seat, and most threatening to small nations...
Nonetheless, his students call him a great teacher.* "He has the ability," says one, "to pick a minute point of law and expand it, contract it, show its variations, its logic, its evolution. It's not the material that makes his courses; it's Gilmore." Another chimes in: "He's not flashy. Essentially, you're getting hard thinking. You won't find what he teaches in any books...
...Anyone who understands the logic of moral thinking must conclude that laws--like everything else--are subject to ethical consideration. Once you've thought it out and consulted yourself and you've concluded your moral obligation to think and decide, then it's your moral obligation to act. Unless it's purely suicidal, in which case you haven't thought it through right. In other words, you've got to think. And all laws are fair game...
Howard Zinn, professor of government at Boston University and author of Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal, said that the indictment is really not aimed at the five but at the "very large numbers of American people who are fed up with the war and haven't yet voiced their opposition." "It's the government's way of saying to all these ordinary people, 'You had better shut...