Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason we're gonna win is because we love music," boomed Candidate Bella Abzug, displaying her usual optimism if not faultless logic. Seeking to jazz up her campaign for the Democratic Senate nomination, Bella stopped in at Eddie Condon's in Manhattan for a jam session with the house band, Red Balaban & Cats. While Bella boogied, Balaban introduced a new campaign song, sung to the tune of I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. Sample lyrics: "I wish I could legislate like my sister Bella/ She can write better laws than any right-wing fella." Chances...
...feet squarely behind the prompter's box and, as it were, deliver his aria in person. When Strehler puts a soprano at her ease, or when he positions a chorus so that it does not have to shuffle around the stage while performing, he does it with logic and a convincing illusion of action. At his best, he preserves and freshens the essence of an older work. Says he: "That point of contact between past and present is fleeting. Often a 150-year-old opera is like a little flask of perfume. When you pull out the stopper...
...Catholic Church has traditionally opposed birth control because each sexual act should be open to procreation. Many leading moral theologians now question that contention, and McNeill says their logic should lead them to re-study homosexuality, which has also been condemned because it contravenes the purpose of procreation. Curiously however, McNeill uses something of a natural-law argument of his own. "God so created humans that their sexuality is not determined by their biology," he writes. Therefore "the homosexual condition is according to the will...
...Gertrude Stein's text about Suffragist Susan B. Anthony. Thomson's score is a bright crazy quilt of American folk tunes, gospel hymns, marches and sentimental ballads that evoke pungent memories of an earlier time. Stein's libretto is her customary trenchant blend of logic with nonsense, historical characters like Lillian Russell (sung by Karen Beck) with imaginary figures like the mobile angel (Ashley Putnam). Snippets of political speeches are intercut with Stein's excursions into absurdities. "I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking," Susan B. accuses. "Daniel Webster needs an artichoke," reports the angel...
Your revolution occurred in an age of intellectual ferment when men such as Locke and later Montesquieu, Rousseau and Hume were seeking to apply logic and reason to understanding man and his institutions embodying this tradition of logical enquiry...