Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White Album. By Joan Didion. (Simon and Schuster, $9.95): Written in Didion's usual cogent, vivid prose, this scrapbook of 1960s Americana is punctuated with insightful social commentary. But her series of epiphanies don't quite add up to the hoped-for unified masterpiece...
Writing in the first person, Starbuck tells us a story that is a pitifully amusing parody of the John Dean-H.R. Haldeman "Let's Make Money Off of Watergate" autobiographies. And somehow, Vonnegut manages to work in some particularly cogent statements about the mistreatment of Sacco and Vanzetti and the history and problems of the twentieth-century labor movement in general...
...blatantly immoral regime. Second, we feel not only that this refusal to take a more active stand is despicable, but also that it represents tacit support of the present policies of these firms, if not of apartheid. There is little need to present the innumerable familiar yet still cogent arguments against the University's present policies, since this has been done quite thoroughly and articurately elsewhere, especially by several faculty members...
...authors bypass the math and cut to the core, relating the theory's history, fundamental concepts, applications and elements of the current controversy. Although swallowing the theory without the math requires some suspension of disbelief, Woodcock and Davis manage to present a cogent summary and the reader is left with the feeling that he has at least a handhold on the material...
...Chain of Chance the irony is that it is man's own civilization which has become so complex as to be beyond his understanding. Yet John succeeds in uncovering the mystery, and the author's resolution appears to be cogent enough to leave us feeling smugly satisfied that we know the answer. Are we willing to believe Lem, or should we suspect that he is gulling us into accepting his artifice in order to satisfy our expectation of a final solution and our need for one as well? It is not at all clear, for the novel's realism...