Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disputing Logic...
...there was another, more sensational, criticism raised against the Faculty vote: that it was born of the logic of fear. As Rosovsky's reference to Munich implied, many on the Faculty and around the country were appalled by what they saw as the capitulation of the nation's most prestigious university to the demands of students protesters--demands enforced by what some viewed as an atmosphere of psychological intimidation. The charge of capitulation inspired much heated debate: an associate professor at the University of Texas went so far as to ban from his classes all books written by Harvard professors...
...game with the atomic bomb, ostensibly protecting America's security by keeping the A-bomb "secret" under wraps. Then three undergraduates (one of them a Harvard student who managed only a B- in Physics 55) independently designed workable A-bombs without access to classified information, exploding the government's logic of using information control to contain the spread of nuclear weapons. Unphased, the government simply classified the student's designs...
...harsh: habitual thieves are punished by having a hand cut off; adulterers are either scourged or stoned to death; falsely accusing a woman of adultery calls for 80 lashes-the same penalty imposed on a Muslim caught drinking alcohol. The equivalence of the two punishments exemplifies the time-honored logic of the Shari'a. The Koran forbade the drinking of wine, but did not specify a punishment; 80 lashes, however, was decreed for those who bore false witness. Making the analogy that drink leads to hallucination and to telling untruths, Islamic sages decided that the punishment...
This uneasiness is a common response to films Paul Schrader (Blue Collar, Hardcore) has a hand in. They always begin as intriguing notions, but Schrader is willing to sell out themes, characterization, simple dramatic logic in order to serve up a socko scene or a happy ending. One guesses that here the producer and co-writer started out to make a trendy feminist tract about taking just revenge on male inadequacy, then found that Diane desperately needed humanization. Star and director obliged, but the result is an incoherent mess...