Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Replied Papadopoulos: "Had I known, I personally-and the others-would have tried to enlighten him and not let him go astray." Papadopoulos refused to speculate about the King's motivation. Said he: "If there were in this world a way to interpret illogicality by logic, I would have an answer...
...logic is easy to see. Without graduate deferments, it is true that "oldest-first" would have meant a virtual depletion of men very near the practice of their profession, whether it be engineer or political scientist. Under the new system, however, not nearly so many older men will be taken. They will be replaced by 19-year-olds, men hardly close to or even sure of their future profession...
Viet Nam has become the profane cow of U.S. theater. Onstage it seems to inspire polemic frenzy, puerile logic and sob-opera bathos. That was true of the off-Broadway musical Viet Rock, and it is even truer of We Bombed In New Haven, a first play by Joseph Heller, whose Catch-22 was a novel of comic pitchblende. His lackluster drama is a kind of catchall-22, a wastebasket version of antiwar cliches too feeble for use in the novel. While the production is securely mounted by the Yale School of Drama Repertory Theater, student actors are scarcely...
Once again, Lester has breached all logic of time and continuity, as in all his films. Only here there are horrors leaping across time. Men killed wantonly and gorily do not disappear from the film; they go on. But they are painted from head to toe in one of several bright colors to stand as constant reminders of the un-live state that war has sent them...
...intensely personal one. Doubtless a man of his drive, dedication, and desire to win-whether at chess, squash or disputes over great public issues-feels an emotional anchor to his job and to seeing the war through. But McNamara is also supremely rational; his reason could not ignore the logic in favor of a change in jobs. Thus, while his heart said stay, his mind said...