Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even read a book all the way through." Instructors from John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill.., paid regular visits to the prison, so Taylor signed up for six courses, including biology, math and Western civilization. He got straight A's. Encouraged, he moved on into black studies, logic, electronics and criminology-all courses specially sent to him by Southern Illinois. S.I.U. waived tuition and provided tapes of lectures. Taylor chose psychology as his major, "mainly because I wanted to discover what made me tick...
...fled Nazi anti-Semitism to settle in New York in 1940. A star student in advanced math and philosophy at Princeton, Kemeny was drafted to work on the Manhattan Project, and later became Albert Einstein's assistant. In 1953, when he was 27 and a teacher of logic at Princeton, Dartmouth asked him to head its math department. He soon recruited one of the best college math faculties in the country...
What the House bill does mention is billboards. Though declared illegal along most rural roads by the Highway Beautification Act of 1965, and vehemently opposed by Transportation Secretary John Volpe, the unsightly signs still stand. With curious logic, the new House bill will allow "directional signs" to remain indefinitely. In fact the House bill would allow six of them to flank each mile of rural road...
...James: "It is really a damnable sin to draw with such consummate art a houseful of rubbish." After passing on his post as drama critic of London's Saturday Review to Max Beerbohm, he panned him ferociously. Beerbohm annoyed the master by observing that Shaw honestly believed that logic, not passion, made the world go round. How vulnerable G.B.S. the puritan superra-tionalist seems today in his rebuttal, waffling on about something he called "Reasonable Emotion...
...original writers of the Bible had trouble deciding where to stop telling a never-ending story, Miller has had even more. He ends on a note of optimism undoubtedly intended to inspire love and hope. But after Lucifer's final pyrotechnic display of attractive logic, it is difficult to accept a simple-minded homily that makes no attempt to answer any of the philosophical questions raised in the play. Perhaps Miller expected to encounter an audience full of implicitly believing Adams; but he would have done better to prepare for a few doubting Eves and Cains...