Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope of settling that precious state, and defining his position in it, that the hippie uses drugs-first for kicks and then sometimes as a kind of sacrament. Anti-intellectual, distrustful of logic, and resentful of the American educational process, the hippie drops out -tentatively at first-in search of another, more satisfying world...
...logic sometimes escapes Congress, as it did last week, when House and Senate conferees contrived a compromise redistricting bill that ignored both of the passed bills. Fortunately, the plan had to be ditched when a crucial clause prohibiting "at large" elections was found to be missing...
...valid. He mints a bright aphorism here and there. "Men who believe themselves deeply engaged in private thought are usually doing nothing," he writes. And again: "One should always cherish his critics and protect them where possible from foolish error." But his writing is too often didactic and his logic oversimplified...
...just that may sooner or later bring down Arab rulers all over the Middle East, and it will make the Arab dream of unity more ephemeral than ever. Such substance as the dream once had was rooted in common military cause against Israel. Now, even in the often surrealistic logic of Arab leaders, that dream can hardly be evoked seriously for a generation to come...
...might threaten the destruction of the Hanoi government. Now, however, faced with Hanoi's stubborn resistance, and in light of the Administration's mistaken belief that victory in the "test case" of Vietnam can end this type of "aggression" in this century, U.S. policy has begun to develop a logic and momentum of its own. As each escalation fails both to break Hanoi's will and to provoke China's entry, the Administration first hopes, and then believes, that the next step may bring victory over Hanoi and yet not bring Chinese armies pouring into Vietnam...