Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Logic. The first part is hilarious. Esther Greenwood, as the heroine is called, is an awkward rube of a girl with "fifteen years of straight A's" behind her but absolutely no experience of life -even as it was known to teen-agers in the '50s. She and her fellow "guest" editors are herded around the city "like a wedding party with nothing but bridesmaids." Upon discovering caviar, Esther consumes a pound or so at a magazine luncheon, paving her plate with chicken slices and smearing on the high-priced spread. But she knows that the whole enterprise...
Those things, that sense of community and interdependence, are what a new society will be all about. And Mayday is just one point along the way to that new society; between the logic of the old and the new; somewhere between the end and the beginning...
...poor, the weak, the despised of yesterday may, on gaining a social victory over their detractors, exhibit the same arrogance." It was a comment typical of his hardheaded, pragmatic realism in human affairs. His successor as the leader of Protestant thought cannot avoid dealing with Niebuhr's forceful logic; he will have to abandon it deliberately or build...
...there is sense in the logic of the committee. For example. without the ruling this year, it is very likely that Harvard could have played Dartmouth in the District I Championship and have travelled all the way to Omaha only to replay Cornell. Navy, and Princeton in the opening three rounds of the tourney. Much of the excitement and the idea of creating a national championship would be lost...
Pittenger's logic will have to be that the best teams should be selected for a national playoff regardless of league origin. But carrying his argument to its natural conclusion, Pittenger will find he is also arguing that geographic playoffs and invitations should be eliminated...