Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robinson displays a sure hand in manipulating the high humor of the quaint incidents which divert him. While his characters are not burdened with realism, they do have considerable vitality to them. If their language is complex and perhaps even elusive at times, it has a consistency and logic that emerge in a second reading. The logic and consistency seem a sign that the author has planned precisely where he is taking his characters; if their destination is not clear in the excerpt, readers doubtless will find clarification when they see the whole...
...adaptation to his environment, and as his environment changes, so do his diseases-but they do not disappear. In Mirage of Health, published this week (Harper; $4), famed Microbiologist René Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (though no physician) applies laboratory logic to visions of a medical utopia...
...Villa drove the U.S.-born Mormons out of Mexico, and the family went to Los Angeles. In kindergarten, children taunted him mercilessly with the sneering cry "Mexican!" Said George one day: "Look, if a kitten was born in a garage, would that make it an automobile?'' The logic was overpowering; the kids let him alone...
...rights that stem from the capitulation of Hitlerite Germany 14 years ago, but that's a long time ago." If the West did not voluntarily surrender these rights, he warned, Russia would sign a separate World War II peace treaty with the East German Reds. Then-by Russian logic-conquerors' rights would no longer apply in East Germany-"and West Berlin is in [East German] territory...
...chamber was almost deserted when Lawyer Dodd. veteran of two terms (1953-57) in the House, rose at his back-row desk, laid his speech on a lectern, and speaking in a clear, strong voice began working his way through his careful logic...