Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...male student wanted to join Women in Economics and Government, the College could hardly stand in his way. But if that same student wanted to join a sorority, he would have no possibility of gaining membership. Pleading that sororities serve Radcliffe only would not solve the problem, since the argument is just as true for women and fraternities...
...sake of argument, we'll naively take the protesters' statement at face value. Insofar as Professor Mansfield and George Will are defenders of conservative retraction, one in academia--the other in the press--they are the natural targets for these leftists' anxiety. But to ascribe to Mansfield the hateful mission of the Ku Klux Klan and to Will the extermination policies of Nazi Germany steps over the line of humorous hyperbole...
Within this framework, Shaw creates other innovations of form. She has a heated argument with a lover in which she plays both parts. She makes no distinction between her and her lover. The dialogue fuses into an exhilarating burst of angry words, as if to say that an argument between lovers intertwined is an argument between indistinguishable parts of the same whole...
...wishes to wed. The anxious and particular Lomov succeeds unexpectedly with Natalya's father in asking for her hand, but soon everything goes terribly wrong when Lomov falls into a pointless territorial dispute with Natalya before he can propose. As he refuses to abandon principle for pragmatism, the argument degenerates...
...legislation. "I have never been for a tax cut for the rich or anyone else," Simpson said. D'Amato, whose constituents include millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries as well as a huge medical industry, seemed to agree with the Clinton Administration, saying that the Democrats' argument that the Republicans were cutting Medicare to pay for tax cuts "resonates and senior citizens are concerned. ... It's difficult to make the case that we are doing this to strengthen Medicare...