Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even if one takes issue with Kanin's logic, it is still possible to enjoy the play. Kanin obviously identifies with the character of Paul Verrall, the wise and patient teacher, but he manages to deliver his lessons with a lot more finesse...
...investigate the present situation is to confront the highly contradictory "logic" which guides the struggle against the democratic rights of Black people on this campus. The Bok administration has almost made a complete joke of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research. As it stands now, we are all amazed but not amused. The appointment of the advisory board raises several points...
...word is to be believed, money is going to be very difficult to raise. Yet by some perverse logic, Bok and his committees, by separating the institute from the department, have pursued a strategy designed to place the department in an either/or competition with the institute. Either one gives money to the institute or one gives money to the department. Such a position could hardly be called logical though it apparently passes for logic. With increasingly scarce resources such a strategy makes no sense unless one envisions either the death of the department or of the institute, or of both...
That sense stayed with him until the press conference, and it became part of his decision to pardon. On the playing field, Ford had never been vindictive. As a congressional leader, he had held magnificent grudges, then wiped them out after the issues had been resolved. The same logic compelled him in Nixon's pardon...
...this more scholarly approach now wanted abroad and what appears to be a greater open-mindedness in the type of advice given by project teams has meant both an increased need and an expanded field of action for people in other fields. Such, at any rate, was the logic behind the changes made in June. The revamped HIID, in fact, seems to have been something of a pet idea of President Bok, who started the policy review that spawned it by appointing Raymond Vernon, Johnson Professor of International Business Management at the Business School, to look into ways in which...