Word: cogently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Academia has adequately recognized the threat from outside. President Bok presented a cogent rejoinder to Nuclear Free Cambridge, while other officials have resolutely assured us that Harvard will not accept any federal funds governed by rules allowing bureaucrats veto power over research results deemed to be "sensitive" to national security. Similarly, official expressions of concern over free speech have been slow in coming but encouraging, as there is news that President Bok will soon draft a statement outlining his defense of the issue...
...book fails to present an adequate argument for good old-fashioned liberalism for several reasons, not the least of which is that Cuomo was too lazy to present a cogent narrative. He relies instead on notes written at the dining room table at 5:30 a.m. or after a vigorous 15-hour day of campaigning. Were Cuomo a more fluid and captivating writer, the diary form would have been acceptable, but Mario is no Hunter S. Thompson, and his prose is more akin to a connect-the-dots game than a straight narrative line. Though the account is quite lively...
...Genes provides a cogent and entertaining alternative to the much-publicized sociobiological studies...
Howe states that President Bok is not voiding the issue. In fact, he writes, President Bok "has come up with two cogent letters" in these past twelve years. If Howe thinks that this is enough of a dialogue on as important a subject as divestiture, the members of the Harvard community, who support the movement, emphatically...
...simply is not avoiding the issue, and neither is the Corporation. For the last 12 years, they have discussed divesting and Bok has come up with two cogent open letters while the student body has turned over three times. Even in 1972, Bok and his cohorts were seriously considering the worthiness of divestiture; many of those, who now compare that same group to rednecks and Klansmen, were in third grade, learning where South Africa...