Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...process." Or: "It does not follow that if someone is old enough to die in Vietnam, he is old enough to vote.... After all, would the reverse apply-that when a man becomes too old to fight for his country he becomes too old to vote for it. Bad logic, all the way around." Indeed...
...Ford feels the faculty committee should advise Watson on his decision, then the committee should meet immediately to resolve the issue. The logic behind waiting until April 14 is that the question is such a personal issue, involving a coach who has a 23-year coaching record, that time and patience should be taken. But, if the concern is really for Munro and not just a stall until summer, then a decision should be reached as soon as possible, instead of dragging Munro through accusations and meetings for another month. And if the committee is at all concerned about...
...from the Balanchine ranks in recent years. Fete Noire, based on a Shostakovitch score, is a neoclassic Russian romp set in some imaginary imperial salon. At once crisp and buoyant, it demonstrates how well Mitchell has grasped the real secret of Balanchine's genius-the mastery of the logic and geometry of bodies in motion. By contrast, Mitchell's Rhythmetron is a throbbing, stylized Afro-Latin tribal ritual set to a score for 33 percussion instruments by Brazilian Composer Marlos Nobre-a perfect vehicle for the company's restless, half-tamed energy...
With a kind of advance-to-the-rear logic, the South Vietnamese command announced Sunday that the Laos operation is in "its withdrawal stage" and continued to stick to their claim that the invasion has been a success. At the same time...
Mailer on Millett on Miller, as on Lawrence, is astonishing in the sureness of his under-standing, astonishingly good, that is, until the final twist of his logic. Mailer accuses Millett of missing the quintessential point in Miller, "that lust when it fails is a machine." Then, at his cockiest and most ecstatically ribald, Mailer treats us to his own passage on lust, on lust and love and Priapus the ram, a passage no less provocative, in its way, than the tirades of Falstaff or Rabelais or all the thighs in the canvases of Rubens...