Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many of your factual implications are likewise incorrect; for example, you well know that the move of HAND into Phillips Brooks House, so that the program could have a permanent location in better communication with the College public service staff, was envisioned long before Dean Kidd's appointment. Your argument against this move--that PBHA should retain isolated and exclusive dominion over this precious space in Harvard Yard because people might not be able to comprehend that two different organizations were in one building--is absurd on its face. But rather than attempting to answer the various individual fallacies...
Sallie Tisdale, author and contributing editor to Harper's, falls on the whiny side of this divide. No doubt she is well-intentioned, as most of the whiners are, but she comes off as selfish and old-fashioned, like some decaying actress caught backstage. Her argument in the recent Harper's runs smoothly enough: Libraries have gone over to entertainment, peddling videos and Internet access in the hopes of enticing people to use the library. This kind of instrumental programming, such as handicraft classes, social work and lectures, has always failed in the past and will continue...
...creation he opposed. It was Dick Morris, the consultant turned million-dollar author, who pushed Clinton in 1995 to make his comeback with a centrist, ad-driven strategy that would require truckloads of cash. Ickes, almost alone in the West Wing, fought the scheme. Yet when he lost the argument, Ickes executed it to the letter, keeping fund raisers on schedule in memo after memo written in a tiny, pinched scrawl. Clinton has shooed away both men. But while Morris has begun his comeback, Ickes remains in limbo...
...Court has become accustomed to deciding cases, not based on the text of the Constitution, but rather on what the justices think the meaning of Constitution should be (a question betraying a Scalian mind set)? I understood his answer to be, "There is no such thing as a 'textual' argument, or one that is self-evident from the text. Rather, the Constitution is an evolving document that must be understood in relation to changing circumstances...
...precisely this kind of argument that has given rise to the most hostile attacks on the very essence of the Supreme Court in my lifetime. Calling for radical changes in the structure of the judiciary used to be a kooky notion of the right fringe; now, although currently still a far-right proposition, it has become respectable and more mainstream...