Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conviction in Alison Clarkson's production of the play, is that both protagonists are right. Antigone, the embodiment of the heroic will, hurtles towards death with a barely understood drive to express her personal freedom, while Creon is the human voice of reason assailing her with all the logic he can muster...
...work like Three-penny Opera or Lucia so completely interfuses dramatic and political concerns that it would not occur to us to separate their claims on our attention. It should not surprise us to find that when a play's political tension is built upon the same internal logic that propels its dramatic development, each is made more vivid by the resonance of the other. This can only happen if the playwright's chief concern is to write something, not write about something. If the play stands on its own merits, then it can also bear the weight...
...logic figured in the decision to implement airport searches, they would obviously be extended to other public areas. If considerations of constitutionality and personal liberty were important, such searches would end. There is instead an emotionalism at work, fueled by a general public fear of flying. Passengers are willing to look the other way when confronted at the airport by the trappings of a police state...
Further, the new model is used merely to indicate the possible consequences of actions-or lack of them. Unlike Limits, the new book does not use questionable logic or mathematics to support a bleak, inequitable philosophy of no growth. Indeed, it promotes the idea of selective growth: less industrialization in the rich countries to counterbalance more in the poor nations...
Does no one else find the statement strange that the one thing we cannot use to bring inflation under control is controls? Thank God the fire department does not use such logic. J.G. Sweeny Atlanta...