Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quotas became equality of outcomes." He does not say at which link he would have interrupted the chain. Mayer does argue that government's tasks are to "harness greed," to lay a deft hand on the economic system but never so heavily as to interfere with the basic logic of the marketplace. As for politics, Mayer says irritably, "I could not care less whether the government calls itself conservative or liberal or radical, Democratic, Republican, American, Socialist, Worker or Libertarian. If we can get the substance right, I can put up with almost any style." In a period...
...finished gobbling the 11th or 12th Ambler goodie that I realized what had been going on. Not what was going on with the books--spy novels are easy enough to figure, God knows--but what was going on with me. I finally caught on to the twisted logic grown up between the Ambler fetish and my dropping the Big One. The Big One is the thesis, and it was as if this series of late-night thrillers was slyly supplying the same drama, the gut-unwrenching of four years of tension, that the thesis was supposed to. And though...
...there is any flaw in the logic of the decentralized system, it may be in the doctors' confidence that there is enough birth control education on campus. Room 13 staffers, who average one to two late night telephone requests for birth control information, have already had to tell a couple of callers that the morning-after pill must not be taken as soon as the sun rises the next day. Wacker says the people he sees seem well-educated about birth control. But what he may be overlooking with a system as subtle at Harvard's birth control program...
These warnings are reminiscent of Administration pleas in early 1975 for last-ditch aid to failing anti-Communist governments in Saigon and Phnom-Penh. In the Wall Street Journal last week, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., charged the Administration with unnecessary hyperbole and suspect logic. "I strongly doubt," he argued, "that anyone in the Soviet Union is concluding today that . . . the Senate's action on Angola gives Moscow a blank check for foreign adventures...
With glib elliptical logic, the agit-prop actually suggests that the man can become the machine...