Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book The Female Eunuch, is rarely without something shocking to say. Still, British readers who picked up her regular column in London's Sunday Times were bemused. IT'S TIME VD WAS SOCIALLY ACCEPTED, the headline announced, and the story went on to argue, with slightly Shavian logic, that the pox is now so prevalent that no one who has it should be obliged to feel guilty. "I wish at this point I could announce publicly I had had a venereal disease," Ms. Greer concluded. "Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have...
Then why had the crisis burst? The simplest and most ominous explanation seems to be that currency speculation has developed a self-sustaining momentum independent of economic logic. The crude fact is that speculators who have bet against the dollar since 1971 have profited, while people and companies that could have speculated but held dollars instead have been hurt by two declines in the dollar's value. Many "speculators" are bankers and corporate treasurers who are anxious to keep their overseas holdings in safe currencies. There also is evidence that Middle East oil sheiks, who are paid...
VIETNAM FOR ME had not been an historical lesson, or an example of American imperialism, or even a catastrophic event. It had been an intensely personal and overwhelmingly subjective experience which intruded on me and was suddenly over--with no apparent meaning or logic...
...namesake must be turing in his grave, corkscrew fashion, with that logic. Alice Lewis Carroll
...that logic, does one suppose that if Mr.Bowles is given tenure by the Economics department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, that the U.of Mass. is interested in "overthrowing the system"? And since the U.of Mass. is a state-supported institution, does that mean that taxpayers also would endorse the "overthrow of the system...