Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Callaghan's plan is most logical. Logic, however, will mean nothing if Smith's backers decide-as some fear they might-that acceptance of reality is much less glorious than a shooting struggle against ultimate defeat...
Easy Vanity. As this collection of mock essays about mock artists amply demonstrates, no aesthetic theory is too lunatic for Domecq to explain and applaud. He takes up the cudgels for the late César Paladión, an imaginary novelist who followed the path of rigorous logic straight into absurdity. Since all writers, Paladión reasoned, borrow words and sometimes even phrases and lines from other writers, why not take this process as far as it can go? "Reaching into the depths of his soul," Domecq prattles, "he published a series of books that expressed him utterly...
...Passos about the role of art, Herberg about the existence of objective, material reality, Eastman about Marx's epistemology, among others. If there is a single explanation for their conversions, it is that each man began with substantive disagreements with Marx and only gradually worked out the logic of their implications...
...China, one sees that a politician nurtured on McCarthyism can be anti-communist without being anti-totalitarian." Is Diggins saying that Russia and China are totalitarian but not Communist? That detente is an outgrowth of McCarthyism? That Nixon should be regarded as a serious conservative intellectual? The muddled logic and vague implications make it hard to follow Diggins' drift...
...elitist or socially exclusive. To quote from your article, it is hard to fathom the import of Dr. Chase Peterson's words. "Too few people are involved in final clubs to feel excluded if they were unable to join." This is a curious brand of Twist-O-Flex logic to say that a member of a majority group seeking access to a minority clique will not feel excluded if denied that access...