Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, Zambia's action is sure to give foes of sanctions a new argument...
...argument that doctors have a right to charge high fees because of the "long years of learning and not earning, the killing hours and loss of contact with family," etc., is rubbish. At no time during premed, medical school, internship or residency did someone put a gun to my head and force me to continue...
Having thus traded blows inflicting roughly equal economic damage on each other, Washington and Moscow might pause and decide to start negotiating. This, at least, is the argument for having a capability for waging limited nuclear war. It could buy time and prevent Washington from facing, at a moment of confrontation with the Kremlin, the dilemma of having either to capitulate or to order a massive atomic attack. But there is an obvious, enormous danger. Once the military nuclear threshold is crossed, there is no guarantee that the momentum can be controlled to keep the exchange limited. Warns Secretary Brown...
...argument is simplest if it turns on TV purely as entertainment, with no intent larger than diversion. On that basis, the laissez-faire system of the ratings possesses absolute logic: the people decide, voting with their channel selectors. What works as diversion will presumably be highest rated and therefore most successful. But there is a fallacy here: a laissez-faire principle of rule by ratings would be admirable if a wide variety of choices existed. Too many network shows are devoted almost entirely to exploring new dimensions of imbecility. That seems an old and boringly elitist criticism...
...point seemed valid to those who could see a similarity between Engelhard and Hitler's characters. Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, did not buy the argument, however. Part of his job is to take into account the interests of alumni and donors to the K-School--in this case Engelhard's daughter, Sophie (MPA, '77)--and those of K-School students. He says protesters have shrouded the issue in rhetoric. "It was a triumph of symbolism over substance. It had no impact on anybody who lives in South Africa or who might have been...