Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acts of classic tragedy. In this century, films have sometimes assumed that function. Today, television seems to be rising to the role. Despite the unemotional statements of the witnesses, Watergate televised is anguished ritual and moral tragedy. It has its longueurs, and not all the questions are brief, cogent or acute; some of the Senators are intent on using their allotted time beyond real need. Still, each day brings new revelations and confirms old suspicions; each day creates a community of numb bystanders who will not be free until the last act is done...
...from the decay of the social structure, but has contributed to it. The three-year study of major American cities focuses on Urban Renewal's post-World War II "solution" to the problem of lower-income housing, not upon older urban slums. Newman calls that solution "possibly the most cogent ally the criminal has in his victimization of society." Uncoordinated government decisions, combined with the whims of architects bound by little more than limited funds, have produced a motley assortment of often "inadequate and irrational" buildings...
...arbitrary and discriminatory." He considered the problem in his off-the-bench time, then produced an informative monograph closely analyzing what is wrong with the current approach and suggesting what can be done to repair it. Published last month, Criminal Sentences/Law Without Order (Hill & Wang; $5.95) is a cogent, sometimes savage commentary...
This idea, a good one in my opinion, failed. Matt Bozek, a fellow player whom I have always liked and respected, offered his explanations of this failure in a recent letter to the Sports Editors. Cogent, often accurate, but dangerously deceptive, Bozek's expose points to two main contributing factors: first, "the unworkable situation of 'big-time basketball' and 'academia'"; and second, Harrison's total incompetence as a coach. Due to the possible impact that Bozek's assessments may have upon the direction of the Harvard basketball program, these points deserve serious comment...
...sees a tear running down the corpse's face. Agnes asks Anna for Karin, but when Karin enters the older sister rejects the younger: "I want no part of your death...If I loved you it might be different, but I don't love you." It is a cogent argument. Maria enters next, and with her uncontrolled emotionalism comes close to embracing her dead sister; but she finally is frightened, and runs off, not wanting to be dragged down. Only Anna, with the unexamined Christian faith which every day makes her thank her God for taking her natural daughter, cares...