Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Valley resort, they got a chance to question one of the campaign's prime architects and its loudest voice: Vice President Spiro Agnew. He journeyed to the meeting, Agnew said, "to consult with my brothers and if necessary, to debate them, and if convinced by logic, to make changes." His brothers, for the most part, found him a good deal more willing to debate than to change...
...part of New Yorkers' troubles last week. For out-of-town visitors, for the aged and for expectant mothers in their ninth month, there was the additional labor pain of a taxi strike. It seemed that the complex urban understanding was going through another periodic fit, obeying the logic of a self-destroying machine by Sculptor Jean Tinguely. Titled, perhaps, Immobility...
...fascinating example of legal logic, the California Supreme Court has just ruled, by a vote of 4 to 3, that Taylor can be tried for his friend's murder. Because Taylor was an accomplice, he was liable for any act of his co-conspirators that furthered their criminal purpose. It was possible to conclude, said the justices, that Smith's jumpy behavior was likely to cause a death−namely, his own. And, since Taylor was legally responsible for Smith's actions, he was "vicariously responsible" for provoking Smith's death...
...Accused of aiding and abetting the kidnap-murder of Judge Harold Haley near San Francisco four months ago, she has already been charged with conspiracy and murder in the judge's death, and the prosecution is likely to stick with that relatively straightforward charge alone. But under the logic leading to the Taylor decision, it is at least conceivable that Angela Davis could also be charged with the murder of the three kidnapers, who drove their getaway truck toward a roadblock, provoking their own deaths in a hail of police bullets...
...many forms of Buddhism, the one best known in the West is Zen. Its guiding principles of inward meditation versus doctrine, of emphasis on the visceral and spontaneous as against the cerebral and structured, of inspiration rather than linear "logic," were seized on by the early beatniks, taken up by many of the young today, and were incorporated into the mystique of America's counterculture. But what kind of art did Zen provoke in China and Japan? In a brilliant show that took a year to assemble, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has provided a definitive survey...