Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superb dialogue with Jean Block-Michel, which was repdinted from in the November 23, 1957 issue of The Reporter. Here, in a translation that lacks the power of the Reporter version, it is retitled The Wager of Our Generation. Serious readers can find no more precise or cogent summary of the values that moved Camus throughout his life...
Labeling Tocsin's campaign as two-fold in purpose, a spokesman for the group stated that it wants both to win the support of Congress and to provide the Harvard community with "cogent arguments" for the proposal...
...arguments of the city planners and University officials, reinforced by red tape, appear to be fairly cogent. They depict the situation as an almost impossible labyrinth of physical and political problems. Their only hope seems to lie in a messianic revalation. Witness a line from the 1961 budget summary that city manager John J. Curry submitted to the Council: "All have confidence that new and modern construction is on the way, but until it appears, extreme caution is necessary." This sort of argument tumbles like a house of cards in the face of a singular refutation--John Briston Sullivan...
Despite its needlessly bloodthirsty climax-the machinist, like Wotan, gives up an eye to gain his triumph-The Angry Silence is a grimly impressive critique of the mass mind. Guy Green's direction is sure, direct, forceful. Bryan Forbes's script is swift, cogent, vernacular. But Hero Attenborough's performance is the best thing in the picture. He is so ordinary it hurts, but then his ordinariness is an essential part of his significance. Anybody, he seems to say, anybody at all can stand up on his hind legs and live his own life if only...
...more thoughtful and cogent analysis of steadfast and changing France has not yet been written. Aron is no brilliant apologist for any national cause, despite his former connection with Gaullism; he is St. Raymond, killer of myths, and as such extraordinarily incisive. For his explanations, he offers impressive support; it is only his optimism, as he himself confesses, which must still remain unjustified