Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson specifically rejects this criticism, arguing that by the logic of evolutionary thought the opposite is as often true: what is may be destructive to the species...
...Steven Symms explained the issue before a congressional committee saying, "Gun prohibitionists, like the liquor prohibitionists in the 1920s, reach their positions through the use of convoluted logic about human behavior. Their assumption is that human beings are victims--mere pawns of the inanimate objects around them. Remove the objects and all will be well. The prohibition period should have taught us that this kind of reasoning is nonsense...
...women. The overwhelming emotional implication of the film is that true happiness can be found, however transiently, in a relationship of domination and submission. Nothing Wertmuller does in the film undercuts this impression; ultimately, she loses her critical distance from her material and is carried away by the logic of the relationship. Though she set out to satirize sexual stereotypes, Wertmuller ends up reaffirming them...
...Vacation and Scorcese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore pose the issues of women's oppression but resolve them romantically. The key to such films' failure to transcend the problems they raise lies in their use of the stereotyped plots and characters of romantic comedy and tragedy. The logic of these genres leads either to a happy ending brought about by Fortune or an unhappy ending brought about by Fate; in either case the basic situation is left unchanged and the possibility of meaningful human action is denied...
...form of the book constantly threatens to become the very chaos it is criticizing. But it holds. If JR were simply a literal send-up of Horatio Alger stories, Gaddis' ironies would be heavy and obvious. But his conception is pure and highly original. The dung-beetle logic of the young JR, the rationalizations of the go-getters and the stifled rage of the gotten echo long after the last line of this profoundly indignant novel...