Word: logical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bald Soprano contrasts vividly with The Lady and Her Sources. Where Salinas had been ironic, Eugene Ionesco is abstruse, absurd, and abnormous. His "Anti-play" makes Waiting for Godot look pale and logical. Lines follow each other without connection, characters change identities, and the humor is always mixed with bewilderment. When there is logic, it is carried to such an extreme that it becomes ridiculous. Yet, every so often Ionesco shows us a glimmering of reality that other writers seldom uncover. InThe Bald Soprano the characters seem to say whatever comes to their minds--momentary antagonisms, sexual impulses, errant thoughts...
...time; the Dodgers will be a long time recovering. The big names that brought them to the top -Campanella, Robinson, Reese, Snider -are aging fast. No matter how they add it up, the sad arithmetic of their decline will always be the same. Said Columnist Bugs Baer, with embarrassing logic: "When you score only one run in three games, you gotta lose...
...aoth century is the death of man." Most of the writings of 50-year-old, Paris-dwelling Irish Expatriate Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot) are opaque obituaries of humanity. Written in a kind of Joycean code, they are further complicated by a neo-Cartesian quest for identity, the logic of which runs: "I cannot think and do not know, therefore I am-or am I?" In his play Waiting for Godot, this intellectual razzle-dazzle bewildered theatergoers, delighted highbrows and kept critics lunging desperately for underlying meanings. Malone Dies will furrow many another critical brow, but few will quarrel with...
...with the noble soldier, Prince Andrey, and out again, and in again just before Andrey dies. Pierre Bezuhov still marries a worthless woman and fights a duel over her. But their actions, as well as those of some of the minor characters, often appear purely mechanical, without any inner logic that makes it all plausible. These people, even Napoleon, appear to be puppets, on the strings of an invisible master who is not allowed to speak...
Typical of the logic of Dr. Gordon's rules was the case of a woman patient whose uninfected husband visited her regularly. She asked Gordon if she could dance with him. Gordon said no, because it was too difficult to keep track of patients and nonpatients ("We can't put blue jackets on some and yellow jackets on the others"). Complained the patient: "I can stay in bed with my husband all day-but they won't let me dance with...