Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unleashed the Cultural Revolution. Before him there was Liu Chao Shi who was denounced because he was in sympathy with the Soviet Union. But Liu was the acknowledged leader of the right-wing forces. Never mind the contradiction. After all, Mao Tse Tung believes in contradiction, if simple logic does not. But how could one ever know? Was there open debate? Was there party democracy? Has he read Lin's documents? Or has he read Liu's? But Mr. Nwafor is ready to accept the opinion of the victors. That is how tragedy begins in every revolution...
...disconnected intensity; they are fragments of a lost life, like sculpture found in the rubble of an ancient city. "If a work of art is to be truly immortal," he proclaimed, "it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense or logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child...
...killers. Its hero, the quintessence of the cool keen-eyed loner with a badge, sets himself against the epitome of evil, a psychopathic blackmailer who loves to murder. These two types have fought it out before, but never with such violent abandon. Dirty Harry may have its flaws with logic and over-simplification, but its sheer brute force kicks aside all discrepancies as it hurtles towards the final confrontation of primitive good and evil...
...rabbits dead. How many cows do you kill a day? 80,000 a day? One million? Finish with the hamburgers and I will finish to kill animals. It is essential to show how you are criminals. First, you must live human beings. Then give food to dogs." The logic lies more in the passion of his delivery than in the sequence of words themselves...
Expository Form. St. Anne, the mother of Mary, was the patron saint of rhetoricians, and the altarpiece was commissioned from an unknown artist living in Antwerp to commemorate Zoutleeuw's well-off circle of public speakers, grammarians and logic-choppers. Indeed, the unfolding of the events in St. Anne's life as depicted on it (see caption below) has something of the intricate, expository form that was required of formal discourse in those years, while the rhetoricians themselves are shown in conclave at the bottom of the center panel. "This scene," says Dean René Overstyns, "shows...