Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give discounts to cash customers. Says one C.U. lawyer: "People who want to use credit cards should be prepared to pay an extra charge. Now businesses are making the cash customer pay for the convenience they're providing someone else." While C.U.'s suit has a certain logic, the prospect of bargain-conscious buyers shelving their credit cards in favor of wallets filled with cash could be a boon to an unintended group: muggers...
Most of the columns are written in stream-of-consciousness style that leaps from notion to notion with scant regard for structure or logic, neither of which is a Frazier forte. Rather, his strength is an unerring eye for targets vulnerable to his wit, delivered in the bilious tones of an aggrieved headmaster. Once in a while he softens with memories of the good old days. He can sentimentalize at length about bar-hopping with Hemingway and Thurber, and pay tribute to Tim Costello, the late keeper of a Manhattan literary saloon, this way: "Without himself, who has been...
There was a savage logic behind the use of anti-personnel weapons. The men in Washington who planned this war knew that the National Liberation Front and North Vietnam had only limited medical facilities and that widespread injuries, instead of deaths, would severely tax those facilities and weaken the Vietnamese war effort. So they issued crisp orders which set in motion the farm wives and the bomber pilots. And more small boys clutched shredded bodies and blinded eyes and screamed in agony...
...instance, against Penn, Sanders rotated Lenny Adams in for Bill Carey, Carey for a sluggish Lou Silver and Silver for Tony Jenkins. The next night, it was Adams for Silver, Silver for Carey, etc. The pull-and-plug logic has worked, in one sense...
...Actors Company staging of Knots wraps an hour's worth of such vicious circular logic in music hall routines that include slapstick, songs, juggling, mime and dance. Ironically, the format runs into a Laingian knot or two. The words cannot satisfy the action, which in turn fails to satisfy the words. The reason is that Laing's knots are not truly Gordian but slip; what appears complex comes apart with a simple tug. This may even be the point, but it still leaves the actors-none of whom are Laurel or Hardy, or Gallagher & Shean-striving frantically...