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...offense suffered from an inability to get off effective shots and passes in front of the opposing net, this year's returning forwards--notably last-year's high scorer, Alex Lightfoot, co-captain Firkins Reed, and senior Sara Fischer--know each other's styles well enough to mount a cogent team attack...
Somewhere here there is a message--the nation's syndicated psychoanalysts quickly diagnosed a shift to the Right. Cogent, even obvious, but incomplete. The 1980 election either represents widespread dissatisfaction with Jimmy Carter (the majority op-ed view) or a near-total realignment of American politics, a conclusion more dour but also more plausible...
...some extent, of course, that's a cogent, coherent argument. Growing numbers of applications bear it out, and few graduates sue the University for not getting their money's worth. But there is another side to the financial story. The traditional sources of income may be shrinking; yet, hidden beneath layers of talk about inflation lie not a few smaller pockets. And where Harvard cuts corners--many of them sharply--it could be reaching deeper...
Robert Hughes' article was cogent, incisive, powerful-a word portrait worthy of Picasso's Picassos...
...most vivid of these brief theater pieces is The Conference of the Birds. Questing for a cogent purpose in life, a group of brave birds take wing on a perilous journey to find their true king, the Simorgh. The few survivors find that the quest was a moral lesson-to look for the Simorgh within themselves. The playgoers' reward is the way the actors become birds, with gold, red and white beaks, and swatches of silk plumage...