Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the American government began its bombing raids on North Vietnam two months ago, opposition to its escalation of the war has been at times cogent but as often confused. Judging only from the government's behavior, Washington has paid relatively little attention to such opposition. The air strikes have continued and U.S. military strength in South Vietnam has been increased. The CRIMSON has already argued, in an editorial on February 24, that escalation through bombing offers no real prospect for ending the Vietnamese conflict. We now believe that if Washington is ever to become convinced of the futility...
...things one may do: study, or more realistically, try to mitigate the biannual terrors of exam period. One may turn, of course, to booze or pot, but an even more soothing alternative is to take a look at last year's final exams posted in Lamont. They are a cogent reminder that while things are bad, they could be worse...
...bitterness and the more self-controlled, often scientifically skilled persons who joined the Communists for ideological reasons. The Communist "network of perceptions and association and interpretations," she writes, "made the Nazi-Fascists seem like hogs rooting among the simple, unimproved beech mast of the world." She also makes the cogent point that the well-publicized flights from England of Spies Bruno Pontecorvo, Burgess and McLean were deliberately contrived by Moscow to destroy U.S. confidence in England and sow disunity among the allies...
...locked in a tight Atlantic world, argued De Gaulle, it would be unable to serve this centripetal function, since countries such as Rumania, already showing signs of loosening their ties to Moscow, are simply not part of the Atlantic world. It was perhaps the most cogent argument yet offered against the "Atlantic Community" concept...
...highly dissimilar shows, both models of their kind, are cogent indictments of war. Euripedes' The Trojan Women (at the Circle in the Square), inspired by the Athenians' attack on Delos, is probably still close to flawless even though Mildred Dunnock has left the cast. Directed and choreographed by Michael Cacoyannis, the production includes an outstanding musical score by the modern Greek composer Jean Prodromides...