Word: circularity
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...Point Attack. Around the big circular table in a converted gambling casino at Punta del Este, 19 Presidents affixed their signatures to a 10,000-word, red-leather-bound declaration that is aimed at helping Latin American countries solve in unison their cen turies-old problems of illiteracy, poverty and narrow sectionalism. With the sole exception of Arosemena, the Presidents decided on a six-point attack...
This leads, in The Circular Ruins, to "a temple, devoured by an ancient conflagration, profaned by the malarial jungle, its god unhonored now of man." A stranger arrives, impelled there by the desire "to dream a man. He wanted to dream him in minute totality and then impose him on reality." The stranger succeeds, only to be assailed by the fear that his creation will discover its source...
...attempt to pass a hasty moral judgment on an international conflict is likely to lead us into an oversimplified formula of thinking and we might fall into an endless circular debate. To avoid this, let's adopt a more realistic point of view. The realistic viewpoint in this case requires us first to examine what this local war signifies in the context of international politics and what its possible solutions...
...unswerving premises of Friendship and Fratricide, for all the author's talk of "the spirit of free inquiry," is that Hiss was innocent. By assuming rather than substantiating this, Zeligs places his analysis within an unconvincing and circular logical structure, which in turn calls otherwise well-argued propositions into question. The book fails as a whole because its often compelling psychoanalysis is so clearly founded on clumsily linked, improperly evaluated facts...
...magnetized vinyl and metal cutouts, including a head of Sylvie Vartan (the French pop singer), a headless female nude (with movable arms and legs), a Negro head, Clark Kent's shirt being ripped open (by Clark Kent's hands), four tibias, twelve zeros, a vortex, a circular saw-blade, a fire, a splash of water, an esophagus, a stomach, an American eagle's head with a Russian babushka wrapped around it, and an unmade...