Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweets behind her husband's back because he disapproves of candy-eating women. And she never questions his need to feel masterful; she does her best to feed it. Nor does she mind being categorized by him as flighty and irresponsible, deficient in the basic equipment of level-headed logic with which men run her world. Her entire existence is cramped in a closet to which Torvald holds a jealous key. But Nora considers herself lucky to be so taken care...
...idea that men were stronger than women, hence better. My father had power over my mother economically, intellectually, etc. He could demolish her verbally; their arguments ran like a Thurber parody of The Battle Between the Sexes. He could think more precisely and analytically than she could. His infallible logic made her look clumsy and irrational, and she failed ever to muster as clean a logic when pitted against him. He would retreat to a citadel of rationality and leave her flailing outside with futile goading and gadfly jabbing. Frustrated by her powerlessness, she could only shout...
...love the law," he says, "but I like having enough distance to be its observer. So many events in this country are finally subjected to the logic of the law that in watching the process, I come in contact with almost every aspect of American life...
...sense of Congress" resolution onto an oil allotment bill, urging states to lower speed limits on federal aid roads by 10 m.p.h. or to 55 m.p.h., whichever works out higher. The resolution, which each state can heed or disregard as it chooses, is based on the desperate but indubitable logic that cars burn up less fuel at middle-range speeds. The Administration's energy experts, who are flat-out in favor of the resolution, claim that a car driven at 60 m.p.h. instead of 70 will consume 11% less gasoline; a car driven at 50 will burn 23% less...
...most peculiar aspects of the system occur in the largest departments, specifically History, English, and Government. For years, academics have questioned the validity of subjectively grading honors theses in English, maintaining that it is nearly impossible to accurately judge the quality of a literary work. This logic seems to be borne out in the English Department. According to sources in the Department, there have been at least three theses for which one reader gave some form of summa and the other reader marked it with some degree...