Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adoption of an anti-colonialism clause in its investment policy. In 1972 it is not shooting the moon to ask men of goodwill to do their best to put an end to the bloody remnants of the 19th century. We ask only that Bok act upon the humanitarian logic of his own statement...
...Irving, either sloppily or unconsciously, frequently retains similarity of writing structure. The same basic ideas often follow each other within paragraphs and in like-constructed sentences in the two manuscripts. Moreover, the same anecdotes sometimes follow each other, even when no logic compels it. In the boxes on the following pages are two extended examples of parallel episodes from the two books. In addition, herewith a selected reading of other similar incidents...
...Taiwan. The U.S. will not, of course, abandon its treaty agreements with the island republic. But Washington has finally accepted Peking's position that the future of Taiwan is essentially an internal Chinese problem, to be worked out by Peking and Taipei. Peking seems to accept the logic of the U.S. position that it cannot sever its commitment to Taiwan until Peking and Taipei work out a settlement...
...commitment to keep the world safe for America's brand of democracy. Generally disenfranchised from the prosperity of America, they possess no sense of noblesse oblige. Often alienated and debased, they have no sacred national image to protect. Their own chances for economic advancement usually slim, they see no logic in spilling blood over Guatemalan bananas or Southeast Asian oil. Internationalism is to these people simply a giant waste of lives, time, money, and effort--all of which could be better utilized, they reason, in their own back yards...
...Epps should not be slighted for failing to follow the logic of his beliefs: there are few of us so pure that we have not succumbed to the lurid temptation of distinction somewhere along the way. Rather he is to be congratulated, if not for embodying the mediocrity he so persuasively apotheosizes, at least for pointing out the possibility of salvation to those callow freshmen destined to follow him, by warning them of the ineluctable moral degradation which will infect them should they get an A. It's not too late for them to flunk out and secure their status...