Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women marry Harvard men; they donate money together to the University. At Cornell, where the College of Arts and Sciences initiated a 1 to 1 male-female admissions policy, the dean of Admissions said he didn't receive "a single irate letter." Bok's policy is based on the logic of a system in which women earn less than...
...Because they often disagreed, there inevitably were cherished occasions when the two met head to head, as the writers of the major contending opinions. Black-more frequently in the majority-would crisply muster the facts and reasoning that led to the court's ruling, in seemingly impregnable logic. Then came Harlan, calmly and subtly pinpointing flaws in the majority viewpoint, exhaustively detailing his own different but fully persuasive logic. The reader was sometimes left dazzled and confused-but also enlightened about the nature of law as a living language of civilized society...
...Natalia] and ravenousness [Natalie] of an angel." In thin disguise, Tony is really a writer and Natalie is his muse. Tony's demands on himself have no limit. He wants to find a way "through which paradoxes could be held." There are other goals. How to defeat the logic imposed by language. How to conquer the limitations on writing imposed by the fact that only a comparative solitary will write at all. As for the rest of humankind, why is it that "there is no place, except on a tightrope, where there is room...
...Your Essay on political prisoners [Sept. 6] sadly represents the compromising logic of American liberalism. By asserting that George Jackson's $70 robbery "scarcely Warranted an eleven-year sentence" and that court "reform has proved to be a regression in many cases," you seem to be clearly aware of the inequities facing black political transgressors. Unfortunately, you are willing to prolong these inequities rather than risk a rapid overhaul of their source -America's outdated political and economic systems...
...that they were having second thoughts, even though they still planned to vote for the resolution. In a sharp exchange during two days of meetings in Washington, Secretary Rogers declared to Japanese Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda: "I see your position as totally illogical." Replied Fukuda: "Politics has its own logic." Premier Eisaku Sato's government was stunned by the announcement of Nixon's trip to Peking and by his economic policy, and those twin shocks have served to reinforce the arguments of Sato's critics that Japan should have a foreign policy more independent...