Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original logic behind the price freeze was that it would delay and spread out price increases. Economically, that would ease the pain for the consumer; politically, that would soften the blow to President Nixon. During the rest of this year, food prices are likely to rise 3% or 4%-an annual rate of 6% or 8%. In fact, so much beef is being held back now that the cattlemen may get burned. If the Administration hangs tough and the sellers' strike continues, great herds of cattle will hit the markets after Sept. 12-and beef prices could go down...
...profound sadness came into Jefferson's eyes. "The arguments you use," he said slowly, "are the arguments of tyrants. I do not deny their logic or their force. But they are devoid of a true concern for human rights and dignity. They are George III's arguments. They render our Revolution meaningless...
...Logic Fails Again...
...Cambodia, which will fall to the revolutionary Khmer Rouge shortly after the American bombing stops August 15, American foreign policy--even by its own inhumane logic--has failed once again...
What Dada did was to release art from the burden of its exclusive past in order to find it everywhere--thought was relative, logic false, final truth non-existent, morality but a plague produced by the intelligence, art meaningless. Duchamp's bottle rack read "art is junk" and his urinal "art is a trick." Nothing was real or true except the individual pursuing his whim, the artist bestriding his Dada. Dada overturned any object, mocked it and displaced it as an experiment in apprehending it. Yet beneath the Dadaist irony lay a desperate protest. Dada was an act of rebellion...